Kent Hospital formally opens ambulance area
WARWICK - Kent Hospital's Emergency Department has formally opened an area dedicated for ambulances that will keep ambulance traffic separate from walk-in patients. The hospital also opened new trauma and cardiopulmonary emergency areas and a trailer designed for biochemical decontamination.
The hospital is undergoing a $12 million expansion.
By next summer, the hospital plans to finish renovating spaces used to care for about 40 emergency patients.
When all phases of improvements are completed, the department will have been expanded to more than twice its original size.
Kent Hospital has the second-busiest emergency room in Rhode Island, serving 60,000 patients a year.
The expansion will enable it to serve as many as 90,000 a year.
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