Lockport, N.Y.-based Eastern Niagara Hospital plans to expand its emergency department by 9,900 square feet rather than build a two-story facility next door, according to Buffalo Business First.
The original plan called for $8.2 million to build a 21,000-square-foot facility with an emergency department on the ground floor and offices on the second floor. The revised $9.8 million plan will add a 9,900-square-foot addition to the emergency department and renovations to 13,576 square feet of lobby and clinical space. The project will bring the emergency department from five private rooms and seven curtained bays to 14 treatment bays.
"It's a better design because it connects to the building, so the ease of flow of patients within the hospital will be greatly improved by this design," said Anne McCaffrey, president of Eastern Niagara Hospital.
The changes will be the first to the hospital's emergency department since it opened in 1981.