Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health will add a temporary, 2,500-square-foot building to the north side of the Emergency Department at Lancaster General Hospital, to provide additional patient capacity.
The state Department of Health recently approved a modular, factory-built building, which will include nine treatment bays, a nurse’s station and restroom facilities. It is expected to open in July.
The building will deliver the same patient experience and quality provided in the existing Emergency Department. With the temporary building, the Emergency Department will have 63 treatment bays.
Similar modular buildings are made of the same materials used in site-built construction. They meet all local, state, and national codes for commercial construction, ensuring the detailed quality every medical facility demands. The building will be manufactured by Johnson Portables of Michigan. The company has extensive experience in building adaptable and durable buildings that can be erected and fully functioning within weeks, offering shelter, electrical service, heating/cooling, and bathroom facilities.
The building will be located on the hospital’s emergency ramp and built in stages. The Emergency Department’s main patient entrance will not change, but ambulances that use the Duke Street ramp will need to turn around on the ramp, and exit from it.
LGH’s existing Emergency Department, designed for 90,000 annual visits, saw 117,000 visits last fiscal year. The last major expansion of the department occurred in 2000-01. The temporary building, its medical equipment and technology, and connection to the hospital will cost $3 million.
The Lancaster General Hospital Emergency Department is now located at 526 N Lime St, Lancaster, PA 17602. Learn about our emergency department expansion project.
*Photos provided by Johnson Portables