Posted: 8/17/2015
At 6 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 20, the Rees-Jones Trauma Center, Emergency Department, Urgent Care Emergency Department and Labor & Delivery services in the new Parkland Memorial Hospital will open for business at its new location, 5200 Harry Hines Blvd. Simultaneously, the current hospital will stop receiving new emergency patients and those arriving for care via ambulance will be taken to the new location. Parkland staff will continue to care for all patients in these departments at the current facility until the last person is treated.
In addition to the Trauma Center, Emergency Department and Labor & Delivery, other areas will ramp up operations in the new hospital over a three-day period, including the intensive care units, regional burn center and operating suites. Elective, or scheduled surgeries, have been reduced during the transition although emergent or urgent surgeries are taking place as they arise.
Dallas County residents who are not experiencing an emergency medical condition are encouraged to seek adult and pediatric acute and primary care services and medication refills at any one of the 12 Community Oriented Primary Care centers. The centers are prepared to temporarily receive walk-in patients in an effort to support the hospital move.
The patient move to the new hospital will begin at 7 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, and continue through Saturday, Aug. 22. Each patient will be moved to the new hospital across the Mike A. Myers Sky Bridge. Clinical staff will be stationed along the route to monitor patients during the physical transport. Current forecasting projects that almost 700 patients will be moved from the current hospital to the new Parkland.
For more details about the move to the new Parkland, visit www.newparklandhospital.com or contact us at Parkland@phhs.org.