Salem Township Hospital has announced that the newly renovated ‘A’ wing will reopen as three medical offices on Monday, March 18th.
Interim President Lisa Ambuehl says there will be an open house for the public to see the facility on Friday, March 15th.
“We have all of the equipment and furniture. It’s just being put together. We can’t put anything in there until the terminal clean is done. The construction crew is going through and doing last-minute punch items that need to be fixed like touch-up paint and those types of things.”
Ambuehl says the three sections of the ‘A’ wing will house the Rural Health Clinic, Dr. Mossad’s office, and Sandra Tate’s behavioral health clinic. Room on the lower level that will be vacated by Rural Health will become part of an enlarged operating and emergency room. Plans for that facility are still underway.
Meanwhile, Ambuehl reports work has started on creating additional negative pressure rooms for inpatients.
“What that will do is anybody you need that say is on airborne precautions you have to have negative airflow so it’s not flowing through the hospital. So we currently have the three ICU rooms that have negative pressure and room 2310. So the even remaining rooms that we have, which is about 8 rooms, are all going to be negative pressure for isolation for those types of patients, Covid patients, someone with the flu, TB, those types of things.”
Ambuehl expects that work to be done in four to six weeks.
