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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A hospital emergency room is reopening after five years, as part of Louisiana’s coronavirus pandemic surge program.
Baton Rouge General Hospital says its 33-bed ER will be open for all sorts of emergencies, starting Monday.
The hospital says in a news release that the emergency department is under a contract with the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
Earlier, the contract opened wards for acute care of patients with COVID-19. The hospital had never closed entirely, but concentrated on such areas as cancer care, rehabilitation, behavioral health, outpatient surgery and family medicine.
