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Certification process holds up debut of new Camarillo ER
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More from CamarilloThe opening of a new emergency room at a Camarillo hospital, scheduled for today, has been pushed back, a delay a state spokesman called routine.
Now, officials of St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo hope to open the $16 million facility Saturday.
Staff from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development will visit the hospital Friday to certify a final piece of mechanical equipment, an air compressor, said St. John's spokeswoman Rita O'Connor.
Pat Sullivan, a spokesman for the state agency, said a team was at the hospital last week checking on the project.
"There wasn't any kind of fatal flaw or anything, just kind of the run-of-the-mill stuff — button up the loose ends at the end of the construction process," he said.
Once his state agency gives the project final approval, then staff from the California Department of Health Services will also inspect the ER. O'Connor said hospital leaders expect approvals Friday from both agencies.
The project will bring the hospital six more emergency room beds, for a total of 14. St. John's officials said the additional space should mean shorter waits and fewer instances when patients have to be diverted to other hospitals.
Posted by surfmedic91 on June 27, 2007 at 8:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)
You would think that they would have caught this themselves before they were prepared to certify. Good thing it's not life or death, oh wait, it's an ER that will probably see 75% of it's patients with routine problems and not "emergency" injuries.
Posted by flypaper on June 30, 2007 at 10:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
As the only game in town it will continue to see what it sees now...the full gauntlet of medical cases from belly pains to Code Blues. Adult to peds. Stuck in between Robles and SJRMS it will continue to get their overflow and unwanted cases.
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