‘I Truly Believe It’s Going To Have A Catalytic Impact’: Community Hospital To Open Seven Years After Construction Kicked Off
The emergency room of Ventura's new Community Memorial Hospital has 37 rooms, compared with 17 in the old facility, the intensive-care and labor-and-delivery units have been expanded, and the third floor is dedicated to maternal child health and includes an eight-bed pediatric unit.
Ventura County Star:
Community Memorial Hospital To Open Seven Years Into Construction
A new Community Memorial Hospital conceived when George W. Bush was president is set to open in midtown Ventura at 6 a.m. Sunday, officials said at a Tuesday ribbon cutting.Once projected to open in 2015, the new six-story hospital’s emergency room sign will be activated nearly an hour before sunrise, signifying the beginning of care. Patients will be transferred from the adjacent old hospital starting at about 9 a.m. with estimates that about half of the new facility’s 250 beds could be filled. (Kisken, 12/12)
In other hospital news —
Los Angeles Times:
Hospital Chain Dignity Health Buys Naming Rights To Carson's StubHub Center
Hospital operator Dignity Health will take over naming rights of the StubHub Center in a 10-year deal announced Thursday with stadium owner AEG. The stadium will now be called the Dignity Health Sports Park.The Carson complex, which opened in 2003, was called the Home Depot Center until 2013, when a deal with the home-improvement chain expired. (Koren, 12/13)