Texarkana Gazette

Texarkana Emergency Center now offering hospital services

- By Andrew Bell

TEXARKANA, Texas — Texarkana Emergency Center has expanded its services to provide additional inpatient and outpatient aid as a hospital, company officials announced.

“We are now Texarkana Emergency Center and Hospital, and with our expanded capabiliti­es we can bridge the gap from our outstandin­g emergency room care to include concierge inpatient services as well as outpatient imaging services,” Chief Medical Officer Matt Young said.

TEC is now offering inpatient suites with telemetry monitors in every room as well as other amenities to make patient stays as comfortabl­e as possible.

They have added a cafeteria and procedure room and now have MRI capabiliti­es.

With their imaging capabiliti­es, TEC is able to offer ultrasound­s, computed tomography (TC) and X-rays.

In the spring 2015, Young announced he would be opening Texarkana’s first free-standing emergency center at 4646 Cowhorn Creek Road in the fall.

He said the 10,000-square-foot center would have 10 patient rooms and all the capabiliti­es of a typical hospital emergency room, but no affiliatio­n with a hospital.

“It’s a licensed facility that … provides the exact same care as a hospital-based emergency room,” he said then. “We’ll be licensed by the state of Texas and the Department of Health to provide these services.”

Like a hospital emergency room, the center is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

 ?? Staff photo by Kelsi Brinkmeyer ?? ■ One of the newly finished patient rooms at Texarkana Emergency Center and Hospital is shown. The center has expanded its services to provide additional inpatient and outpatient aid as a hospital.
Staff photo by Kelsi Brinkmeyer ■ One of the newly finished patient rooms at Texarkana Emergency Center and Hospital is shown. The center has expanded its services to provide additional inpatient and outpatient aid as a hospital.

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