NCH Baker Downtown Hospital Emergency Department Renovation Project
In keeping with the focus of always putting patient care first, NCH is in the process of renovating the NCH Baker Hospital Emergency Department. The fifth part of NCH’s ED Project construction is phased to ensure uninterrupted emergency services and should be completed by 2021. NCH Baker Hospital Emergency Department last witnessed renovations over 20 years ago. In 2019, 102 board-certified emergency medicine physicians, advanced practice clinicians, registered nurses, and ancillary staff specialized in emergency care, cared for more than 38,000 visitors. The NCH emergency departments’ modernization project was initiated in 2014 with the renovation of the Emergency Department at North Naples Hospital in 2014. NCH opened the first and only freestanding Emergency Department in Collier County, NCH Healthcare Northeast in 2015, and opened the first and only Pediatric Emergency Department in Collier County in 2016. In December 2018, NCH opened the freestanding Emergency Department, NCH Healthcare Bonita, in south Lee County. The NCH Baker Hospital Emergency Department project includes renovation of the existing 27,600 square-foot space, along with a 19,300 square-foot, two-story
expansion. As part of the renovation and expansion, the first-floor Observation Unit will be relocated to the new-second floor space. The current patient capacity of 32 (a mixture of bays and private beds) will be increased to 43 new private exam rooms and three lean-care chairs, along with a patient observation area increase from 18 bays to 24 (18 private exam rooms and six patient bays). Six resuscitation rooms with specialized equipment for acute, critical care of heart attacks, strokes and trauma will be incorporated. The new design focuses on our senior population, with improved patient privacy, comfortable family access areas, enhanced lighting, noise reduction, non-slip flooring and clearly defined way-finding. The new lean-design model supports a more efficient workflow to achieve greater throughput and higher levels of patient satisfaction. For more than 60 years, NCH has continuously evolved and enhanced its services to meet the needs of those it serves. The new innovative NCH Baker Hospital ED facility will provide efficient, emergency care and expanded access to our nationally recognized stroke and cardiac programs - all within 10 miles or less for most residents of Collier and southern Lee counties.
Medication Safety
An estimated 71,000 children (18 years old or younger) are seen in emergency departments each year because of unintentional medication poisonings (excluding recreational drug use). Most of these visits (over 80%) were because an unsupervised child found and consumed the medication without adult supervision. Children less than 5 years old are twice as likely as older children to be taken to the emergency department for an adverse drug event, and one out of every 180 two-year-olds visits an emergency
department for a medication poisoning annually. Pre-school age children can be seriously harmed if they get into medicines when no adult is watching. Finding and eating or drinking medicines on their own, without adult supervision is the #1 cause of emergency visits for adverse drug events among children less than 5 years old. An estimated 53,000 children less than 5 years old are brought to emergency departments each year because of unsupervised ingestions.
Medication Safety Tips : ✚ Never leave children alone withmedicines. If you are giving or takingmedicine and you have to do something else, such as answer the phone, take the medicine with you. ✚ Do not leave medicines out after using them. Store them in medicine cabinets or other childproof cabinets that young children cannot reach. ✚ When purchasingmedicines for young children, check tomake sure they are in child-resistant packaging that you are comfortable using. ✚ Put the Florida Poison Information Center phone number, 1-800-222-1222, on or near every home telephone and save it on your cell phone.
Visit NCH Safe & Healthy Children's Coalition at www.safehealthychildren.org for more information.
The NCHMacDonald Pediatric Emergency Department is located at North Naples Hospital, 11190 Health Park Blvd ., phone (239) 624-6100
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