{"id":9605,"date":"2018-12-28T18:58:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9605"},"modified":"2018-12-28T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:58:34","slug":"valley-baptist-health-systems-opens-two-er-facilities-in-cameron-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9605","title":{"rendered":"Valley Baptist Health Systems Opens Two ER Facilities in Cameron County"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9600\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9600\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_3157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_3157.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_3157-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_3157-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_3157-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VBHS personnel during a soft opening at Brownsville\u2019s stand alone ER facility. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two new free standing emergency room facilities have opened as part of Valley Baptist Medical Center\u2019s ongoing effort to expand its operations in Cameron County.<\/p>\n<p>One of them opened in Brownsville on Dec. 1 at 2073 E. Ruben Torres Blvd. and the second on Dec. 8 in Harlingen at 1725 N. Ed Carey Dr.<\/p>\n<p>Estefaniia Alamillo, a company employee at the Brownsville ER, said they can handle most emergency situations and will take in transients providing the ER coverage from their insurance providers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We have a staff of four in this facility,\u201d she said. \u201cWe also have a medical doctor on site 24\/7.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Valley Baptist Health Systems bought the building from Neighbors ER.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Mohler strategy officer with VBHS, said each ER has seven rooms readily available for any lifesaving issues.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn LeRoy, chief nursing officer at VBMC-Brownsville, said the opening of the ER here is part of their ongoing process to continue improving their health care services in the area.<\/p>\n<p>She said the new ER is in a part of Brownsville that has been growing rapidly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Two new free standing emergency room facilities have opened as part of Valley Baptist Medical Center\u2019s ongoing effort to expand its operations in Cameron County. One of them opened in Brownsville on Dec. 1 at 2073 E. Ruben Torres Blvd. and the second on Dec. 8 in Harlingen at 1725 N. Ed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9606,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions\/9606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}