Baptist Memorial Health Care Celebrates Grand Opening of First Freestanding Emergency Department in West Tennessee

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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