The 50,000-square-foot wing adds 53 new beds and 12 intensive care units.
Desert Valley was experiencing a hospital-bed shortage which prompted the expansion. Its 1.1 hospital beds per 1,000-population was well below the 1.9 average in California and the 2.7 average nationwide.
Once the additional beds open, patients will be able to move into a patient room more quickly easing the heavy flow through the emergency room, which had been overcrowding due to the hospital-bed shortage, according to the report.
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