HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Crestwood Medical Center is opening up a free-standing emergency room in Harvest. One of the main reasons for the new facility is to give more time to save a persons life.
CEO Matthew Banks says, "In the event of an emergency with cardiac stroke, time is so important in really getting our providers to care for that community that quickly is so important." Banks also says, "Population growth in the Harvest, Toney Bobo, the whole northwestern portion of the county, and saw that there's almost 40,000 people in that community that would have to travel over 30 minutes for emergency care."
The 12,000 sq. foot facility comes with 10 exam rooms, a CT scanner and ultrasound lab. It's also serviced by the same professionals who work at the main Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville.
Banks says, "In total, we have about 40 staff members that are have signed up and said, hey, we want to do what's right for this community that have started in at that location. They're the same nurses, the same respiratory therapist, the same skilled technicians that you find here on Crestwood at Crestwood Medical Center, providing care there."
The timing of the opening of the new medical center is very good. Banks says, "The demand for emergency care in the Huntsville market is at an all time high right now. So being able to take that very same care that we provide here at Crestwood Medical Center today and put it in that community just made a lot of sense to us."
