MORNING HEADLINES | Health care facilities in North Charleston and Summerville today will launch a new interfacility transport service to improve access to emergency care across the tri-county.
The program from HCA Healthcare Trident and Summerville will add four dedicated ambulances that will be stationed at the hospitals’ freestanding emergency rooms. The ambulances will allow patients who need a higher level of care to be quickly transported to Trident Hospital and Summerville Medical Center.
HCA Healthcare currently operates freestanding emergency rooms in the Charleston region, including Brighton Park, Centre Pointe, James Island and Moncks Corner. Two more freestanding emergency rooms on Johns Island and off Long Point Road are expected to open later this year, and a groundbreaking is planned soon for a location in the Cane Bay area of Berkeley County.
Before this program, if a patient at a freestanding ER needed hospital-level care, staff had to call county ambulances and use the county’s resources to make that transfer happen.
Each ambulance carries advanced medical technology, including a power cot system, allowing a single paramedic to manage critical care patients en route.
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