BUFFALO, N.Y. — Erie County Medical Center announced Thursday it's received $10 million from the New York State Department of Health.
The money will go towards the hospital's new trauma and emergency department.
ECMC broke ground on the $55 million facility in June 2018. The project is being paid for with money from public and private sources.
“ECMC is deeply appreciative to Governor Cuomo, his administration and the NYS Department of Health for this very important funding, which will support the dedicated clinicians who every day save lives in our Key Bank Trauma and Emergency Department and, of course, the tens of thousands of patients they serve annually," said ECMC President and CEO Thomas J. Quatroche Jr., Ph.D. in a statement released by the hospital. "We are also very thankful for the strong support ECMC received from the members of our Western New York state legislative delegation, especially NYS Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes and NYS Senator Tim Kennedy. They made this critically important funding a priority of the delegation and they advocated tirelessly for ECMC. Our Great Lakes Health partners at Kaleida Health and the University at Buffalo were equally important in reinforcing ECMC’s need for this level of funding to support our lifesaving care for all Western New Yorkers. The public and private support we have received is a resounding endorsement of the national class of care delivered by our ECMC Family. We are now in the home stretch of completing and delivering a state-of-the-art Trauma and Emergency Department that will provide hope and healing for generations to come of our region’s residents.”
The new trauma and emergency department facility will increase treatment space from 36-54 stations, four dedicated trauma rooms, two behavioral health safe rooms, two isolation rooms, and four medical resuscitation rooms.
There will also be two CT rooms and two x-ray rooms.
The project is expected to be completed in May.
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