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Bon Secours St. Francis breaks ground on emergency department expansion

Staff Report //February 27, 2020//

Bon Secours St. Francis breaks ground on emergency department expansion

Staff Report //February 27, 2020//

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Bon Secours broke ground on a $41 million emergency department expansion at St. Francis Downtown on Wednesday. The updated emergency department will be five times larger than the existing space, increasing the department’s rooms from 18 to 42, according to a news release.

Renderings by McMillan Pazdan Smith show how the expanded emergency department will look from outside and as a cut-away from above. Greta Cue, administrative director of critical care and emergency services, said the hospital’s ER treats 50,000 patients annually, but the new facility will extend its capacity to 75,000. The design will enable the hospital to grow vertically in the future to meet future needs, if necessary, she said in the news release.   

“The city of Greenville is growing at a rapid pace,” she said in the release. “This expansion will allow Bon Secours to grow along with and care for our community, as the number of people needing our emergency services increases.”

The project is expected to be complete by the end of 2021.

The expanded facilities will include “fast track” rooms to separate less acute care cases from other emergencies, hold rooms for patients waiting on lab results, senior-friendly services, new equipment and behavioral health rooms for mental health emergencies, the news release said.