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Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
LECOM near opening of newly expanded E.R., more facilities
LECOM Medical Center is expanding its E.R. and some other departments in an effort to better serve its patients. The new spaces are larger and designed with the comfort of patients and efficiency of staff in mind. LECOM cuts the ribbon on county's first specialty hospice unit It's been a busy spring at Lecom Medical Center. On March 31, it opened a cardiac cath lab. Next week, its new emergency room will welcome patients. And the following week, new intensive care and medical-surgical units will open. The expansion on LECOM's Peach Street campus was designed with the current and future needs of patients in mind. 'Privacy, dignity, respect, treating our patients and our community members with the care and the dignity that they need,' Danielle Hansen, D.O., regional president of LECOM Health said. Patient spaces have been elevated from curtained cubicles to private rooms with bathrooms. All with specially designed beds that are more comfortable and safer. Six current Gannon students visas revoked, little justification given 'What's great is that it allows us to monitor the patient and it allows us to do safety checks and keep the patient safer with advanced bed alarm system and a projector light system,' Josiah Barton, the ICE and medical-surgical manager said. The goal: to be prepared for patients' evolving needs. 'Our patients in the hospital are tending to be more sick so higher acuity, higher needs,' Dr. Hansen said. While this room doesn't look any different, it's actually a negative airflow room, specially designed for patients with infectious diseases. City of Erie opens applications for new firefighters 'Through the COVID pandemic we all learned the importance of negative airflow in the healthcare setting,' Dr. Hansen explained. 'That also helps for anybody who comes in with measles or other types of airborne viruses.' Other changes include larger rooms with bigger beds and ceiling lifts for obese patients. And increased security including a metal detector and bulletproof glass. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
New name marks new era for LECOM Medical Center and Behavioral Health Pavilion
New name, new beginning. LECOM Health has rebranded their hospital on the cusp of opening their expansion. They are calling this the new generation of healthcare in Erie with a major focus on technology. State police accepting applications for Law and Leadership Academy After years of being known as Millcreek Community Hospital, the center is beginning its next chapter with a new name. Leaders, officials and physicians gathered Thursday at the Atrium at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine for the official unveiling of LECOM Medical Center and Behavioral Health Pavilion. The re-branding signifies the close connection between the hospital and school and the impact they've had on the community as well as the students they train. 'The school was actually started by the hospital but as time has gone on the hospital is the training ground for all of our students,' said Danielle Hansen, regional president of LECOM Health. UPMC Hamot hosting Wear Red Heart Health Expo this Friday Their new identity also comes on the tenth anniversary of LECOM Health. The program is the only osteopathic academic center in the nation and Hansen said they will put an emphasis on adapting to serve the community. 'We want to be responsive to our community's needs, we want to be responsive to the entire health care landscape and environment changes occur from the way we're reimbursed to the way we treat people and the technologies and innovation associated with that so trying to put all that together and make sure we provide the best services possible to our patients in the community,' Hansen said. Construction on the hospital's addition will be wrapping up soon and they will be ready to open in the next few weeks. Groundbreaking was in March of 2023 and two years later, the new multi-story emergency room is an additional 34,000 square feet that includes an intensive care unit, medical-surgical unit and a cardiac cath lab. 'We'll be offering some services that we haven't offered in the past so that's exciting for us and the services that we continue to offer, we'll be offering at a much more comfortable environment for our patients and a much more efficient workflow for our team,' Hansen went on to say. United Way of Erie teaching students importance of 211 line ahead of holiday Hansen said the program will continue to evolve during their 10-year anniversary. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
