The opening of Windham Hospital's new Emergency & Outpatient Services facility is a momentous occasion for all of us who live or work in the greater Windham Region. This $8.5 million project represents a major advance in community healthcare for people from the 19 towns that we serve and beyond.

Our new facility now boasts a 15,000 square foot emergency center equipped with state-of-the-art technology to serve you. The Jeffrey P. Ossen Emergency Center, named for our principal benefactor in this project, doubles the size of our emergency facility, and has the technology, computerized systems and trained staff to bring excellent emergency services to our community. [click here for more information about Mr. Ossen's gift] We are prepared for trauma care, cardiac emergencies, obstetrics, orthopaedics, bioterrorism incidents, and a host of other medical emergencies. Larger and more private treatment rooms with natural light, dedicated behavioral health space and a family room are now included in the Emergency Center. Through our expanded relationship with Hartford Hospital, we have direct access to cardiology specialists trained to deliver tertiary cardiac procedures such as Angioplasty, Cardiac Catheterization and Angiography. In addition, we have partnered with Jefferson Radiology to provide advanced professional interpretation of all imaging studies performed at the Hospital. Jefferson is the State's premier Radiology Group and has an unsurpassed reputation for quality and accuracy.

Our talented staff of professionals are here to serve you. They will listen to you, care for you, and help you to overcome the stress of an emergency visit. With our commitment to patient and family centered care, we will work to improve the experience of care while enhancing healthy outcomes for you and your family.

Many of our outpatient services are now conveniently located on the first floor of the Hospital with a dedicated entrance to the Greer Wing. [click here for more information about our Outpatient Center] On-grade parking will allow you to easily access our new registration area, laboratory, and waiting areas. Cardiac Rehabilitation, cardiovascular diagnostics, and neurodiagnostics can all be accessed in this beautiful renovated wing of the hospital, and we anticipate future upgrades for the CAT scan and MRI facilities. Most importantly, the same caring staff will be there to serve you.

This is a very exciting time for Windham Hospital as we offer advanced technologies, such as our new Picture Archival and Communication System (PACS), an inpatient Hospitalist Program, and the addition of newly recruited physicians to our family of providers. The PACS system will enable us to send images to your physician or to specialists, greatly enhancing our diagnostic capabilities now and into the future. New physicians, called "Hospitalists" trained and devoted to the care of in-patients, are now on board to provide services to patients admitted to the Hospital. They will work closely with your primary care physician and can provide answers in person, to you and your family. We are also thrilled to welcome a number of new physicians to our area including, most recently, orthopaedic, ophthalmology and emergency medicine/toxicology specialists.

All of this would not be possible without the generous contributions of so many people in our community. As we strive to provide excellence in community healthcare, we rely on greater philanthropic activity to respond to the many challenges before us. We are confident, with our outstanding care-giving team and broader family who care deeply not only for Windham Hospital, but for residents and neighbors throughout our region, that we will be successful.

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For a list of individuals and organizations that have supported this expansion project, click here.