In an interview with the Chattanooga Times-Free Press, Atrium Health Floyd CEO and executive vice-president Kurt Stuenkel said that the soon to be built free-standing emergency room in Chattooga County “will save lives”.

Stuenkle says that with Chattooga County’s “interesting geography” there are places in the county where it can take up to 45 minutes to get to urgent medical care in an emergency.  Stuenkle says that Atrium Health Floyd’s new emergency room will be able to provide emergency services to people in Chattooga County in situations where minutes count.

Atrium Health Floyd operates free-standing emergency rooms in North Carolina – many of those in rural areas.

The new facility will be built on twenty-seven acres near Wal-Mart, between Trion and Summerville on Highway 27.

In the Chattanooga Times-Free Press interview, Stuenkle said, “The facility will be open around the clock, Stuenkel said in a phone interview, have six exam rooms, two observation rooms, lab services, diagnostic machines including X-ray, ultrasound, CT scanner and a staff of 44.”

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