Nathan Littauer plans $3.1M ER renovation; fed funding possible - The Business Review (Albany):

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The Gloversville hospital filed a certificate of need application with the stater Health Department earlier this month seeking approval forthe $3.1 millioh plan. At about the same time, U.S. Rep. Paul Tonki and Sen. Charles Schumer introduced appropriations billzs in their respective housesseeking $1 milliomn to help finance the project. Laurence CEO of Nathan Littauer, said the projecrt does not hinge on thefederapl funding—the hospital recently completed a $4 milliohn capital campaign—but “it would be The plan calls for the ER to be renovated and enlarged, from 5,009 square feet to about 10,000 squard feet.
Kelly said the department seesabougt 25,000 people a year, and was built in 1983 “forr probably half that.” The department has 13 patiengt rooms. This will be increased to 17, but some of the roomse will be large enough to accommodatde two patientsif necessary. Kelly said this shoul d allow all patients to move to a room immediatelyh afterbeing triaged. The patientr rooms will be equipped with televisions to ease the The project also includes anew nurses’ stationb with four times the spacwe as the current, “really congested,” station.
The computer syste already has been upgraded and medical records are Nathan Littauer, which has about $50 million in assets, had net income of abouft $2.1 million on revenu of $78 million in 2008. That representz an operating marginof 2.8 percent. Othe area hospitals, including , and have upgradedd their ERs in the pastfive