Roseland Community Hospital will introduce its brand new, $5 million emergency room to the community Friday.
Roseland Community Hospital will introduce its brand new, $5 million emergency room to the community Friday.
The ER at Roseland Community Hospital, 45 W. 111th St., serves approximately 30,000 patients annually, so a new ER was badly needed, said Anthony Puorro, the hospital’s interim president and CEO.
“The new emergency room will serve as a centerpiece for promoting the image of Roseland Community Hospital and provide an example for all to see how a safety net hospital begins to transform itself into a new facility,” Puorro said. “The ER project is the first significant construction project (at the hospital) since the 1970s.”
Puorro said that retired state Senate President Emil Jones Jr. has been one of their biggest supporters. Jones, along with several other elected officials, including Alds. Anthony Beale (9th) and Carrie Austin (34th) and state Sen. Emil Jones III, D-14th Dist. attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new ER in February.
“I can’t say enough about community projects such as this one, which will benefit our people and make a way of living for many inner-city families better,” Jones Jr. told the Defender. “Hospitals in Black communities should have the same technological equipment as those in other communities, and with this new emergency room, RCH will have that.”
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