CLEARLAKE — A ceremonial wall breaking ceremony was held Wednesday at St. Helena Hospital Clearlake to kick-off the planned $12.1 million renovation and expansion of St. Helena Hospital Clearlake”s emergency department.
Festivities began with a reception followed by a variation of a traditional groundbreaking ceremony in which hospital executives and physicians wielding golden sledgehammers broke through a symbolic emergency department wall, signaling commencement of the long-awaited renovation project.
Participants in the ceremony included Jennifer Swenson, vice president of operations, members of the hospital”s governing board and medical staff. St. Helena President/CEO Terry Newmyer was also in attendance.
“This is an exciting event for us and we want to share it with everyone,” Newmyer said. “A modernized and expanded emergency department is a critical milestone in our commitment to delivering excellence here in our community.”
The renovation will create 12 state-of-the-art patient monitoring rooms, two of which will be for trauma patients. The project will also improve the configuration of the emergency department providing a private ambulance entrance, a welcoming entrance for walk-in patients and visitors and a pleasant, comfortable environment in the larger remodeled waiting area. The triage area will be redesigned so that patients can go directly from the emergency department to a private bed, if necessary.
St. Helena Hospital Clearlake is a 25-bed acute care Critical Access Hospital serving South Lake County. The hospital”s services include 24-hour emergency care, an Intensive Care Unit, women”s services, medical imaging, surgical services, cardiac services, home health care services, health education, outpatient rehabilitation services, a cardiopulmonary care center, pediatric services, and laboratory services. St. Helena Hospital Clearlake partners with St. Helena Hospital to offer a full spectrum of care to the South Lake County community.?
St. Helena Hospital Clearlake is part of Adventist Health, a not-for-profit, faith-based health system operating in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington. Founded on the Seventh-day Adventist heritage of Christian health care, Adventist Health is comprised of 19 hospitals with more than 2,800 beds, 18,000 employees, numerous clinics and outpatient facilities, 16 home care agencies and three joint-venture retirement centers. For more information, visit www.adventisthealth.org.
