Freestanding ERs Coming to Eaton and Franklin
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Freestanding ERs Coming to Eaton and Franklin

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New facilities planned to meet community needs

 

 

Kettering Health Network recently announced plans to build two freestanding emergency rooms to open in early 2015. The Eaton emergency room will be added to the Preble County Medical Center on Washington-Jackson Road, and the other will be built on West Central Avenue/State Route 73 at I-75 in Franklin.

Each emergency room will be 11,400 square feet, and cost between $9 and $10 million.

The Franklin emergency room will have 12 rooms, and is expected to create 35 to 40 new jobs, including registered nurses, respiratory therapists, imaging and lab technicians, and support staff. Four physicians also will be on staff.

The Eaton emergency room will have 8 to 12 rooms, and is expected to create 25 to 30 new jobs. Four physicians also will be on staff.

“We see a need to offer emergency services in the Eaton and Franklin communities,” Fred Manchur, chief executive officer of Kettering Health Network, wrote in an email to employees. “With these freestanding emergency rooms, residents will have better and faster access to quality emergency care closer to home.”

Synergy Building Systems will design and build the emergency rooms.

 

March 20, 2014
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