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One System • One Focus • One Community • Countless Strengths PROPOSAL STAGE 1 B Windsor-Essex Hospitals System Urgent Care Centre/Main Satellite Facility (The former Grace Hospital Site) 339 Crawford Ave. THE PLAN : ‣ Construction of a new, 4-storey, 80,226 square foot satellite building at the site of the former Grace Hospital ‣ Includes an Urgent Care Centre ‣ Additional services will include diagnostics including a CT Scanner, chronic disease management, laboratory services and pharmacy ‣ Windsor Regional Hospital is responsible for all services at this site University Avenue Oak St. Crawford Ave.
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One System • One Focus • One Community • Countless StrengthsPROPOSALSTAGE 1BWindsor-Essex Hospitals System
Urgent Care Centre/Main Satellite Facility(The former Grace Hospital Site)339 Crawford Ave.
THE PLAN :
‣ Construction of a new, 4-storey, 80,226 square foot satellite building at the site of the former Grace Hospital
‣ Includes an Urgent Care Centre
‣ Additional services will include diagnostics including a CT Scanner, chronic disease management, laboratory services and pharmacy
‣ Windsor Regional Hospital is responsible for all services at this site
University Avenue
Oak St.
Craw
ford Ave.
One System • One Focus • One Community • Countless StrengthsPROPOSALSTAGE 1BWindsor-Essex Hospitals System
Benefits to patients and community:
‣ Offers a new model of emergency care delivery to residents in the city’s core
‣ Urgent Care Centres have been successfully used by other hospitals to reduce wait times in nearby emergency departments
‣ Helps revitalize a neighbourhood with rich history in healthcare
‣ Continued WRH presence in the downtown core area
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What is urgent care?
‣An alternate site for patients with less serious issues, who do not require all the resources available in an emergency department
‣Used in other municipalities as a strategy to reduce wait times
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How is urgent care different than emergency services?
‣The UCC is not meant for patients with life-threatening issues
‣The UCC will not accept patients by ambulance
‣Patients can be admitted to hospital from the UCC
‣The UCC is open approximately 18 hours-a-day (peak volume) with the ability to extend hours if necessary
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How is this different than a walk-in clinic?
‣The UCC will be run by the Acute Care Hospital and staffed by hospital emergency physicians and emergency workers from the Acute Care Hospital
‣Unlike a typical walk-in clinic, the UCC will include diagnostic imaging including a CT scanner, and laboratory services to allow physicians and other clinical staff to treat and diagnose more patient issues on-site
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Eye complaints or injuries
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What can be treated at the UCC?
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‣ 37,900 patients with less severe/non-life-threatening issues visit one of Windsor Regional Hospital’s two emergency departments every year
‣ 71% of these patients live within 10km of the proposed Urgent Care Centre
‣ Approximately 40% of patients who attend an ED today in Windsor could be seen at a UCC. 85% of the patients attending an ER today go home from the ER and are not admitted to a hospital bed
“The Urgent Care Centre will have an ultrasound and a CT scanner so it is much more than a walk-in clinic. It is a place where real medical decisions can be made.”
- DR. Paul BradfordMedical Director of Emergency and Trauma Services,
Windsor Regional Hospital
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