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Show Lokeview's new emergency room unveiled to public Lakevicw Hospital will celebrate the grand opening of its new and improved emergency room facilities on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 2 1 and 22. The Emergency Room grand opening coincides with Lakevicw' s third anniversary as part of Healthtrust, Inc., one of the largest majority employee-owned companies com-panies in the country. The anniversary anniver-sary theme of "Quality with Continuous Con-tinuous Improvement ' is ex-emolified ex-emolified in the new emergency emergency room. The service will help parents who happen to be out of town, at work, or just not available when their child needs medical services. In addition, ad-dition, the Bountiful City Police Department will be there to fingerprint finger-print the kids so that parents can have good identification available in case of an emergency. Adults and children alike will enjoy en-joy seeing some of the latest emergency equipment on display. Free emergency kits and balloons will be given out to the emergency room visitors. The open house hours will be from 12 noon to 6 p.m. on Friday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Lakeview treats more than 15,000 patients in its emergency department each year. The new expansion ex-pansion will improve the hospital's capabilities and allow physicians to see at least another 250 patients each month. room facilities and services. , "Many people believe high quality care costs more, but we have found the opposite to be true," said William Moore, hospital administrator. ad-ministrator. . "By focusing on quality health care, and by continually looking for ways to improve our services, we are really looking for ways to keep down the cost of health care. The expansion and improvement of our emergency room was designed to bring the highest quality emergency health care to Davis County." i Lakeview has invested over $1 million in the emergency room facelift and reconstructive surgery. The new facility will emphasize fast and effective service in a comfortable comfor-table and private environment with nine spacious, private rooms designed for cardiac emergencies, trauma, orthopedics and general observation. ob-servation. One area will be reserved for decontamination of individuals exposed ex-posed to hazardous materials, while another room will be available for physician consultation with the patient's family. t Emergency room staffing has been increased with the addition of a physician's assistant and a specially trained triage nurse. The triage nurse will speed up emergency emergen-cy room operation by allowing patients to be questioned and examined ex-amined as soon as they enter the emergency room. "We are excited that the new emergency facilities will allow us to use a triage nurse," said Emergency Room Director Steven R. Mim-naugh, Mim-naugh, M.D., FACEP. "All of the nurses working with Lakeview 's emergency services are certified emergency nurses. They have been trained and tested to handle a wide range of emergency and urgent needs of children and adults from very serious, life-threatening injuries in-juries to sore throats and sprained ankles." The new emergency room will be a Level III Trauma Facility, able to take care of all but the most severe traumas. The severely injured in-jured trauma victims can be quickly transported from the Lakeview facility to Salt Lake City trauma centers. The Lakeview Emergency Room will also serve as the base station for Emergency Medical Services Ser-vices for South Davis County. In order to celebrate the grand opening, Lakeview Hospital is inviting in-viting the community to see firsthand the new facilities and the quality care that Lakeview offers. During the open house, parents will have the chance to pre-authorize treatment for their children at the |