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New Cedar City Hospital president announces ER expansion with behavioral health rooms
Summary
Jamieson Robinette, the hospital's new president, told the council the hospital has started construction on a nine-room ER expansion that will include three dedicated behavioral-health rooms; he said community health needs assessment work will continue.
Jamieson Robinette, the new president of Cedar City Hospital, introduced himself to the City Council and announced construction has begun on an emergency department expansion that will add nine treatment rooms, including three dedicated behavioral-health rooms.
Robinette said the hospital has not undertaken a major expansion since 2006 and framed the project as a response to community growth and documented need: “That looks like 9 new emergency rooms...Within that 9, we have 3 behavioral health rooms that are specific to behavioral health patients,” he said, adding the rooms are intended to protect patients, families and caregivers.
He told the council the hospital will conduct a community health needs assessment this year and expects mental health to be a key finding; Robinette said the hospital recently donated $10,000 to Southern Utah University to support student mental-health services. He invited council members and city staff to visit the construction site during the project.
Council members asked where the ER expansion would be located on the hospital campus; Robinette said it will push northwest from the ambulance bay and that an interim temporary ambulance bay configuration will be used during construction. He described a multi-phase plan for additional future investments in medical office space, surgical capacity and cancer care over the next 12–18 months.
No formal action was taken; the presentation was received as an informational introduction from the hospital president.
