Glen Falls (N.Y.) Hospital received a $20 million grant from the state of New York to construct a 30,000 square-foot comprehensive outpatient facility to cut down on emergency room visits, according to WNYT.
The proposed building would have a primary care clinic, an urgent care facility and an emergency department under one roof. The old emergency department would be torn down.
The state allocated funding to Glen Falls Hospital to help cut down yearly ER visits and reduce expenses.
"What it [the new comprehensive facility] will do is provide the appropriate care right here, right location, and hopefully avoid unnecessary emergency department visits and unnecessary hospital admissions," Dianne Shugrue, president and CEO of Glens Falls Hospital, told WNYT.
The hospital hasn't released a timeline for the construction, but it has three years to use the grant money.