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The Emergency Department (ED) at Laredo Medical Center provides care to all ages from newborns to the elderly. It is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The ED is staffed by physicians and nurses specially trained in emergency medicine and experienced in caring for most major and minor medical emergencies.
The ED maintains a trauma designation of Level III.
Changing for the better:
In the Spring of 2010, the ED will undergo a huge transformation. Phase One of the plans call for the ED to increase from 28 to 38 private treatment rooms and will be designed with patients, staff and physicians’ needs in mind. The Unit will have specialty areas dedicated to trauma, OB, orthopedics, cardiac and a fast track area for minor illness/injury. In addition, the new ER will have enhanced privacy amenities such as patient/physician consultation rooms and bedside registration. Patients and their families will also have access to a larger reception area.
During construction, the current ED will remain open and fully operational while the new ED is being built.
Phase Two of the project will be the development of a new Intensive Care Unit. Plans call for the ICU to almost double in size and expand from 22 to 40 beds. The Unit will offer patients spacious rooms with window views as well as enhanced technology to support the hospital's most critically ill patients.
When time is critical, head for the heart
The instant you feel a flutter in your heart, or pain in your chest, there is no time to waste! Getting you to the right place is critical. To help you, LMC has hung a huge, red heart above the entrance of LMC’s Emergency Room—the place you need to get to fast!
Furthermore, you’ll want to make sure you’re in the right hands. LMC is the only medical facility in town that has twice now received full accreditation by the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) to treat patients with high-risk acute coronary syndromes.
The process for patient treatment is simple. Patients experiencing cardiac distress will enter LMC through the Emergency Room (ER). The patient is then evaluated by the specially trained and accredited medical staff, and then connected to an EKG monitor for a timely evaluation of his or her condition. After an initial diagnosis is made, other hospital departments, including ER, Cath Lab, Intensive Care Unit, Recovery, and Operating Room staff, are engaged to complete the patient’s treatment plan. Low-risk patients are given the appropriate treatment options and subsequent care that is needed in the ER.
There are only 320 accredited Chest Pain Centers nationally. LMC is the 45th healthcare facility in Texas to attain this accreditation, and the only one in Laredo.
1700 E. Saunders
Laredo, TX 78041
(956) 796-3888