The new department will be 40 percent bigger than the hospital’s existing ER and is expected to be completed in 2025, according to the report.
Raymond Conway, the hospital’s medical director of urgent care, said the emergency department has grown from treating about 19,000 patients in 1974 to a projected 40,000 patients this year.
The project will cost $26 million, NBC affiliate WWLP reported July 20.
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