St. Clair Hospital Opens New Emergency Department

St. Clair Hospital unveiled its new $13.5 million emergency department Wednesday, along with plans to change the way it admits and treats its ER patients. Construction on the project began in October 2007, and includes a $500,000 grant from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, a state initiative. In addition, $487,000 from the federal Omnibus Appropriations Bill was applied to the project.

The hospital, based in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon, says it typically has the busiest emergency room in southwestern Pennsylvania, with more than 50,000 patient visits annually. So it is introducing a new health care model based on the so-called Toyota Process, to streamline the admissions and registration processes, with the goal of reducing overcrowding and patients' wait times, the hospital said in a statement.

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Doyle Is Top Emergency Physician

Dr. Thomas J. Doyle was recognized as Pennsylvania's Emergency Physician of the Year during an awards luncheon Aug. 15 at the 2008 Pennsylvania Emergency Medical Services Conference in Hershey. The award is given by the Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Emergency Medical Services.

Dr. Doyle is a board-certified emergency medicine physician with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and serves as the associate medical director for the STAT MedEvac Air Medical Program. He lives in Mt. Lebanon with his wife and two daughters.\

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