A new emergency room is being built at the Arboretum Village in Lakewood.
A familiar sight was seen this week at the Arboretum Village – a sign advertising an incoming emergency room. This will mark the sixth freestanding emergency room in the Lakewood area.
There are already sites on the northeast corner of Mockingbird and Skillman, the corner of Lovers and Matilda and at Oram and Skillman. There are also urgent care facilities at Mockingbird and Abrams, Knox-Henderson and in Casa Linda.
Earlier this year we covered the proliferation of these new health care sites.
The fad seems to be all about saving time.
“We serve a neighborhood market where patients want little wait time and lots of peace and calm,” says Henry Troche-Smith, nurse manager for Excellence ER at Oram and Skillman. It’s hard, maybe impossible, for a health care consumer to determine who has the better X-ray equipment or CT scanner and “emergency” doesn’t denote time for shopping around, so why not go to the closest facility? Apparently many do. “We’ve been very pleased with our level of activity,” says Troche-Smith.
There’s no word yet on when the new facility will be open.
