Officials from Rendina Healthcare Real Estate and Baptist Memorial Health Care celebrated the grand opening of its new Baptist Arlington Emergency Department in Arlington, Tennessee. The new 38,000-square-foot freestanding emergency department and medical office Building includes primary care offices for Baptist Medical Group, a medical imaging center and a freestanding emergency department that will be the first of its kind in Shelby County. The eight-room freestanding ER is a department of Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis and includes a laboratory, X-ray, ultrasound and CT services. The ER will be open 24 hours a day.
Baptist Arlington Emergency Department is West Tennessee’s first freestanding emergency department and will be the only hospital access for much of West Tennessee between Bartlett and Jackson, Tennessee. The $20 million, 35,000-square-foot facility features comfortable waiting areas, eight patient treatment rooms, on-site laboratory services and an imaging center, including X-ray, ultrasound and CT, for instant diagnostic imaging results.
Additional rooms in the emergency department include an area for trauma patients, an isolation room for patients with a potentially infectious disease, a decontamination room for patients exposed to hazardous material or chemicals and a private triage room for initial evaluations.
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