Emergency Care

The Emergency Department now contains 22 beds to help minimize waiting time, and a computerized bedside registration, using laptop computers, streamlines the admission process by as much as 15 minutes.

The clinical staff in the six-bed minor emergency area streamlines waiting time by treating patients with less-than-severe conditions, allowing other staff to concentrate on life-threatening cases.

The Emergency Department is expanding.
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine is now working on a $9.2 million, 19-month-long expansion of the emergency department. The construction will result in a 23,300-square-foot-emergency department instead of the existing 11,300-square-foot department. The Emergency Department will remain open while the construction takes place.

Features of the expanded emergency department will include:

• Universal patient treatment rooms, a smart design, which allows flexible use of the room based on the acuity/severity of the patient being treated. The private patient treatment rooms will be larger to better accommodate the patient and family members.
• The number of the patient treatment rooms will increase to 29 from 22.
• Patients and families will have more seating and other conveniences in the new, larger patient reception and waiting areas.
• Bedside triage, registration, and discharge will allow for a more timely patient experience.
• Point-of-care testing lab, within the emergency department, will speed test results to emergency physicians, enabling them develop a patient treatment plan more quickly.
• Computerized tomography scanner (CT) within the emergency department will provide diagnostic imaging.
• A new paperless physician and nursing documentation system, based in the emergency department, will allow caregivers with appropriate credentials to access emergency department patient information from any hospital computer. This will significantly enhance efficiency and communication when a patient is admitted to the hospital from the emergency department.
• The new design will contain a physician work and dictation area and three large nursing stations.
• Ambulance access will be improved with a more direct route to the emergency department from State Highway 114 and State Highway 26.
• New signage inside and outside the hospital will enable people to locate the emergency department more easily.