Emanate Health CEO Robert H. Curry—a nominee for the Los Angeles Business Journal CEO/Health Care Executive of the Year—oversees a growing, comprehensive health care system that serves more than one million people in the San Gabriel Valley.
Once the community hospital around the corner, today Emanate Health provides leading care through three hospitals, Inter-Community Hospital (ICH) in Covina, Queen of the Valley Hospital (QVH) in West Covina and Foothill Presbyterian Hospital (FPH) in Glendora. It also provides valuable services through Hospice and Home Care in West Covina; and a network of approximately 1,000 primary and specialty care providers throughout the valley.
Even with an increasing number of locations, Emanate Health continues to grow to provide more health care options and services for a diverse group of patients in its service area.
That growth includes the physical expansion of Queen of the Valley Hospital and renovation work at Inter-Community Hospital.
At QVH, Emanate Health expects to break ground this summer on the development of Medical Arts Building II, a 60,000-square-foot building. The project will house an outpatient Ambulatory Surgery Center, a Cancer Center, an Infusion Center and hospital-based clinics. The MAB II project and a companion parking structure are expected to open in 2022.
In addition, construction is expected to begin in early 2022 for a new Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit building at QVH. The project consists of a two-story, 60,000-square-foot building that will include a new 60-bed Emergency Department on the first floor and 24-bed Intensive Care Unit on the second floor. The new ED will have the capacity to serve 120,000+ patient visitors a year. The ED was originally built to serve 35,000 patients and has handled up to 80,000 visits in recent years.
At Inter-Community Hospital, Emanate Health will reconfigure the exterior entryway of the main-lobby entrance, add a new aesthetically pleasing façade and expand the lobby—which will include remodeled admissions, security and information counters and an upgraded gift shop. A third catheterization laboratory will support the growing number of heart patients coming to the Comprehensive Heart Care Center. ICH has been designated a ST Elevation Myocardial Infraction (STEMI) Receiving Center and regularly receives critical heart attack patients from other facilities.
Leading the region with innovative technology, Emanate Health includes six master surgeons in minimally invasive robotic surgery who specialize in urology, general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology—tops in the region. In addition to leading heart care, Queen of the Valley Hopsital recently received its Comprehensive Stroke Center Designation from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and LA County EMS. QVH can now receive emergency ambulance runs with urgent stroke patients and provide clot-busting thrombectomies and other specialized neurological procedures.
Emanate Health was also the first health care system in the San Gabriel Valley to use the FDA-cleared mechanical thrombectomy device specifically designed to collect thrombus (blood clots) from the vein wall in a single session without the need for thrombolytics (clot-busting drugs) and an ICU stay. Patients often experience symptom improvement shortly after the procedure is finished.
At Inter-Community Hospital, vascular surgeons conduct Transcarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR) procedures, which is a clinically proven, minimally invasive and safe approach to prevent stroke in high-surgical-risk patients that need carotid intervention. Emanate Health is one of just a handful of health care systems that offer this procedure in the San Gabriel Valley.
None of these new, technological procedures would be completed without advanced medical expertise.
The Emanate Health Care Center is a new outpatient clinic that provides patients with six primary care and specialty areas for a one-stop shop for many of their health care needs. The health system is growing with a team of highly trained physicians and other staff to provide care for individuals and families through every stage of life. Specialty services at the care center include Family Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Orthopedics, Cardiology and Neurology. The care center is a convenient entry point for new patients to receive affordable, quality care at Emanate Health.
Like a conductor leading the orchestra, Curry is driving the physical and innovative advances taking place at Emanate Health hospitals and locations in the region. Expanded facilities, new technology and comprehensive care is helping the growing community of the San Gabriel Valley gain greater access to improved treatment and outcomes.
Learn more at emanatehealth.org.
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