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Abrazo Surprise Hospital will provide 24-hour emergency room services. COURTESY
OF ABRAZO COMMUNITY HEALTH

Surprise will get its


first hospital — at
OL least a micro version
T COULD Ebony Day families. The nearest hospital is about

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Arizona Republic six miles away. Time can make a differ-
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ence,” Mayor Skip Hall said.
For patients who require more com-

ANT
Abrazo Community Health will begin plex care, the new microhospital will
construction of a “microhospital” in work closely with the Abrazo Arrow-
Surprise that will provide 24-hour head Campus, a hospital in north Glen-
emergency room services as well as mi- dale, according to Jeff Patterson, CEO of
of uniforms, nor surgical and medical procedures. Abrazo Arrowhead Campus.
The 32,500-square foot building will This will be the health network’s sec-
      be near Loop 303 and Bell Road. ond microhospital. Abrazo announced

 

  The facility will feature a 13-bed in 2018 that it would open a similar facil-
& #&
! emergency department, an operating ity, Abrazo Mesa Hospital, later this
room, eight inpatient rooms, laboratory, summer.

   
diagnostic imaging and a pharmacy. Abrazo Surprise Hospital is expected

+ The hospital marks the first in Sur- to open in spring 2020.


prise, a city of more than 130,000 peo-
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