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King's Daughters details $162 million emergency department and imaging expansion; ED to open in June
Summary
Hospital leadership told the Ashland Board of Commissioners the new emergency department and imaging center will increase capacity, add parking and new equipment, and open in stages this summer.
Sarah Marks, president and CEO of King’s Daughters Medical Center, told the City of Ashland Board of Commissioners on March 11, 2025, that the hospital is nearing completion of a major emergency department (ED) and imaging expansion and a new main entrance.
The project is a roughly $162,000,000 construction program that includes a new front entrance, centralized registration, a family pharmacy, and an expanded ED with 86 treatment areas. Marks said the new ED space is 43,000 square feet, will include 56 private rooms, four trauma bays and four procedure rooms, and will increase ED treatment capacity by about 62 percent. She told the commission the ED will be operational in June 2025 and that the new main entrance will open to the public on May 12, 2025.
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