Baptist Health Hardin President Rob Ramey says the upcoming facility on Centennial Avenue in Radcliff is an innovative medical solution for residents on the northern end of Hardin County.
“You can come in and remove a little bit of the uncertainty of ‘should I be going to an emergency room or should I be going to an urgent care center?’” Ramey said. “We’re going to help you to understand how sick you are and then we’re going to put you into the appropriate path for care when you’re at this location.”
Ramey was the speaker at the Hardin County Chamber of Commerce’s Business at Breakfast event last week. He said the project is on pace with the original construction estimate, with the freestanding emergency room and urgent care facility set to open in mid-September and the primary care office opening later in the fall. Ramey said Baptist Health is anticipating 60 to 70 new employees will work at the facility.
Ramey said the operations of the Radcliff ER will be of the same level of care as the hospital ER.
“It is a department of the hospital,” Ramey said. “It will have CT. It will have ultrasound. It will have the technologies, many of the technologies, that we have at our hospital emergency department.”
Ramey said the facility is the product of Baptist Health Hardin’s evaluations of what the growing community needs.
“Do I think we’re gonna go from 75,000 patients at our hospital emergency department down to 60?” Ramey said. “No, I think we’re going to continue to be incredibly busy at the emergency department, but as I see the growth within our community, this is critical to continue to meet the changing needs and the continuing escalation of needs of our community.”
An additional ambulance and ambulance crew will be stationed at the Radcliff facility in the event that a patient needs care available at the hospital.
