Presbyterian Hospital, Main Emergency Department

Baptist St. Anthony's Hospital | Ernest Healthcare | Kayenta Health Center| PHS East Expansion | PHS Main Emergency Dept. | PHS Rio Rancho Medical Center

To meet a growing Emergency Room population, D/P/S was tasked to design a state-of-the-art Emergency Department that could treat a projected annual patient population of 80,000 as well decrease the length of patient stay. In order to complete this task, both the physical plant and emergency department operations had to be re-designed. Working closely with hospital administration, emergency department staff, and an operations consultant we were able to accomplish the task at hand.

We embraced ER concepts such as an advanced triage, bedside registration, and a multiple team approach that PHS had not previously utilized. The space was broken up into four, 10 to 13-bed pods. This allowed for a new pod to open as patient population demanded.  It included 50 beds, 48 in private, “universal” rooms and 2 in resuscitation/trauma rooms. The advanced triage has two exam rooms; there is in-house imaging, a decontaminations area, and the support areas required for this ER.

Location: Albuquerque, NM
Size: 25,500sf