Last October, INTEGRIS officials announced they would be working with Emerus to open small-scale, fully licensed inpatient hospital facilities in different quadrants of the metro, to bring high-quality care closer to home.
Each joint venture facility will be open 24-hours a day, seven days a week and will be equipped to respond to almost any medical issue a patient may present with; including those that may be life threatening or require complex, critical care.
Each will house between eight and 10 inpatient beds for observation and short-stay use, and include a similar number of emergency treatment and triage rooms, along with primary and specialty care physicians, diagnostic and other outpatient clinic services.
“What is a community hospital or a micro-hospital?” asked Vic Schmerbeck, the Executive Vice President of Business Development at Emerus. “We believe it’s a transformative concept that allows great health care systems like INTEGRIS to expand their reach further into communities by offering medical care in lower cost settings that are conveniently located where people live, work and play.”
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