WEST READING, Pa. – Reading Hospital, which treats more than 100,000 patients each year, is expanding its emergency center to accommodate the growing demand for emergency care.<\/p>\n
Reading Hospital President and CEO Charles Barbera was among those attending a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of construction on a 20,000-square-foot addition to the hospital\u2019s emergency center.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday marks an exciting new chapter for Reading Hospital and emergency care in our community,\u201d Barbera said.<\/p>\n
The expansion will provide additional space for patients and their families, along with new pharmacy and financial counseling areas. The project also includes a rapid treatment area with dedicated beds to help patients receive care more quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will make care much more efficient, and it will make in and out much easier,\u201d Barbera said. \u201cSo some of our extended waits we will eliminate with this project.\u201d<\/p>\n
The expanded facility will be named the John and MaryAnne Post Center for Emergency Care in recognition of the Post family\u2019s generosity and contributions to the hospital.<\/p>\n
Barbera said the family\u2019s support will have a lasting impact on the hospital and the people it serves.<\/p>\n
John Post Jr. said Reading Hospital has long held a special place in his family\u2019s heart, crediting his mother\u2019s involvement with the hospital\u2019s volunteer program, which dates back to the 1990s.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mother deserves a lot of the credit for that,\u201d Post said. \u201cShe\u2019s been involved with the volunteer program here since the \u201990s in one way, shape or form, and she believes in the work that Reading Hospital\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Post said he hopes the expansion will help families get the care and support they need during some of the most difficult moments of their lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope to make what is usually considered to be a pretty awful experience, something that’s just a little bit better to help you through troubling times in your life,\u201d Post said.<\/p>\n
Barbera expects the emergency center expansion to be completed by 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. – Reading Hospital, which treats more than 100,000 patients each year, is expanding its emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-306826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}