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Employees pitch in for new ER

Healthcare Strategist Trend Watch, January 26, 2007

Doctors, nurses, and other employees of Staten Island University Hospital's Ocean Breeze emergency room (ER) are so committed to quality emergency care, hospital administrators say, that they've donated $460,000 towards the hospital's new ER.

The current emergency room saw just more than 22,000 patients per year when it was built in 1979, according to the Staten Island Advance. Today, the ER handles more than 60,000 cases anually, the paper says.

More than half of the hospital's employees have donated one hour of their paycheck per pay period to the campaign over the last three years. Other employees pledged various amounts of money to the project.

Construction has already started on the new ER, which is expected to cost more than $30 million. The hospital still needs to raise $10 million to pay for the project.

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