Southwest General Hospital To Open Lakewood Emergency Room?

[Bill Call]

Southwest General Hospital is offering innovative emergency room services at locations in Brook Park, Strongsville, Brunswick and Middleburg Heights. A new on line service allows the patient, doctor or caregiver to register for service while at home, in a car or wherever internet service is available. When you arrive at the ER you are already registered and ready to go.

http://www.swgeneral.com/emergency-serv ... Ogod1hwAoQ

I was out that way delivering some material for a job and noticed the new service being advertised on a billboard along the highway. This sounds like a creative way to provide better service to the patient and more cash flow to the hospital.

Is it time for the City of Lakewood to ask Southwest General to offer that service in Lakewood? Since Lakewood Hospital closed its full service emergency room Clinic doctors have been steering Lakewood ER patients to the new Clinic owned facility in Avon. Wouldn't a Southwest General emergency room in Lakewood be a better choice?

In theory you would want a full service emergency room at the Lakewood Community Health Center but that is not an option.

In any article about traffic accidents or injuries that happen in Lakewood that require a real emergency room you read that the injured person was taken to Metro or Fairview; even if the injured person is injured across the street from the Lakewood Community Health Center. If we had an emergency room in Lakewood people would be sent to the Lakewood Community Health Center. The facts speak for themselves.

Even though the City has given up on Lakewood Hospital that doesn't mean the residents should give up on first class service.