MACON, Ga. (AP) – A medical center in middle Georgia is expanding its emergency room department to serve more than 12,000 patients a year.
The Telegraph of Macon reports the Coliseum Medical Centers completed the expansion this week after more than seven months of remodeling. The $7 million restoration project began in 2017 to improve care at the emergency department.
Much of the money went toward a new helipad in the parking lot for air ambulances carrying patients. The hospital also widened its ambulance canopy, installed a new CT scan imaging system and added five more beds to the emergency room.
Last year, the hospital launched a graduate medical education training program. The program accepted 10 internal medicine and four psychiatry residents in its first year, and 27 more residents joined the program this month.
Coliseum Medical Centers expands ER to serve 12,000 per year
