Life Depends on It: The Campaign for a New ER at Highline
When a health emergency strikes, you need advanced care. And you need it fast. That's why it is so important to support the campaign to build a new state-of-the-art ER at Highline. Your gift will assure that you, your family and your neighbors will have fast, convenient, state-of-the-art emergency care right here in your own community.
An Urgent Need
Of all the services that Highline provides to our community, emergency care is the most vital. It is a critical lifeline for area residents –– not only in times of personal emergency, but also in case of natural disasters. And as traffic congestion increases in our region, the need for advanced care close to home has become even more essential.
Originally built to serve 12,000 patients each year, Highline’s Main Campus ER now serves nearly 47,000 –– making it one of the busiest in the state. While we have made significant investments in expert staff and advanced technology over the years, there are simply too few treatment rooms for the number of patients. Ambulances are sometimes diverted to other hospitals farther away, because we simply don’t have enough capacity.
A State-of-the-Art Facility
With support from the community, Highline Medical Center is building a 27,000 square feet, state-of-the-art ER housed in a new three-story building on its Main Campus. It will be equipped with the very latest advances in medical technology and staffed by an expert team of board-certified physicians. It is designed to make ER visits faster, to reduce stress and to enhance comfort for patients and their families at every stage of care:
- Three private triage rooms
- Bedside registration
- Sophisticated electronic patient tracking system
- Family consult room
- 32 private treatment rooms, with room for family members
- Dedicated decontamination room for disasters
- Diagnostic imaging within the ER
- Electronic medical records
- Separate family waiting area
- Private and confidential admitting areas
- Convenient free parking and easy drop-off
A Life Giving Opportunity: How You Can Help
Highline Medical Center Foundation has launched a $10 million community campaign to help fund construction of the new ER. Highline is not tax-supported. We are an independent, nonprofit organization created by the community and supported by the generosity of individuals like you. We need your help. Your gift is an investment in the future health and wellbeing of everyone in our community. It will assure that fast, convenient, state-of-the-art emergency care will be right here –– whenever life depends on it.
To support The Campaign for a New ER at Highline, please click here or you may call us at (206) 901-8500.