Emergency Department now open at Mooresville campus

A new Emergency Department serving Morgan, Hendricks and Marion Counties opens at 8 a.m. today at St. Francis Hospital – Mooresville, 1201 Hadley Road.

It is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Emergency Department is located near St. Francis-Mooresville's main entrance at 1201 Hadley Road, adjacent to the hospital’s PromptMed urgent care facility.

Highlights include:

• 14 treatment rooms
• two acute care rooms
• state-of-the-art equipment
• wireless communication technology and bedside charting for improved caregiver communication and efficiency
• access point for St. Francis’ renowned Emergency Heart Attack Response Team (EHART) approach to cardiac care
• a community room for emergency medical services professionals

The Emergency Department is staffed by 22 board-certified emergency physicians from Emergency Physicians of Indianapolis, several specialty physicians, three in-house hospitalists who facilitate patient admissions, and nurses trained in acute care and trauma situations.

With the opening of the St. Francis-Mooresville Emergency Department, PromptMed hours have now changed to 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. PromptMed treats about 20,000 patients a year.