Expanded ER opens at Augusta hospital

Although it won’t be completed until summer, University Hospital’s new-and-improved emergency department will begin taking on a limited number of patients beginning Tuesday. Hospital officials on Monday cut the ribbon on the second and largest phase of the three-part ER expansion and renovation designed to treat up to 100,000 patients per year – more than double what the hospital’s existing department was built to accommodate.

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