SCH News
Building project to move EMS
Ross Willis - Toccoa
Record
The Stephens County Ambulance Service (EMS) will be moved from
Stephens County Hospital to its secondary location on Big A Road.
The reason for the move is the emergency room construction and
renovation slated to begin in January.
“We are on target for the new construction and renovation,
but pretty soon after the construction begins, we will have to move
the EMS back to Station Two during the project,” Stephens County
Hospital Administrator Ed Gambrell said.
“A temporary entrance will have to be made with a drive up
for patient drop off, because the current emergency entrance will
be in the middle of the construction. However, the new, temporary
entrance at the front of the hospital will have a person stationed
there to assist patients so that they will not have to go through
the construction area,” he said.
The administrator said that the ambulance service probably will
not be moved early in January, because the first thing that will
be built will be the new emergency entrance. But, following that
portion of the construction, the EMS will be moved.
Will the ambulance service return to the hospital, or will it remain
at Station Two following the emergency room project?
“The expectation is that the ambulance service will return
to the hospital area after all of the construction is completed,
but there is no room for them in the construction and renovation
project,” Gambrell said.
“We have talked about constructing another building for them
somewhere on the hospital yard, but that is not part of the current
contract, and that idea has not been finalized,” he said.
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