St. Luke's opens new emergency clinic

St. Luke's opened its new emergency department and cardiac catheterization laboratories Aug. 25. The $37.5 million project includes a new emergency department triple the size of the current space. There are 37 exam rooms, which include 27 general treatment rooms, four trauma rooms, four mental health treatment rooms and two triage rooms, as well as a decontamination room with eight stations, a bereavement room and a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner room.

The 17-month project also provides the region's most technologically advanced cardiac cath labs and CT scanners, a new cardiac rehabilitation gym, and cardiac diagnostics center. The project included 60,000 square feet of interior construction, plus 70,000 square feet of exterior construction for the parking ramp, ambulance garage and helistop.

"It's truly exciting to see this new space, but it's even better to know that we will have an environment that is now equal to the excellent talented staff and physicians providing care," St. Luke's president and CEO Kevin Nokels said. "It's a project that's been years in the making."