Any money left over from the refinancing and the remain $5.2 million of the $11.5 million would go toward building an emergency room that is more than triple the size of the hospital’s current ER.
St. Charles Parish’s administrator reports that the hospital’s ER sees six times the traffic per bed as the national average and patients often leave without care because of the long ER waits, according to the Times-Picayune story.
Read the New Orleans Times-Picayune story on St. Charles Parish Hospital.
