DREXEL HILL, Pa. – On a recent visit to the Delaware County Memorial Hospital Emergency Department, State Representative Mario Civera announced that the facility has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare.

Representative Civera announced the grant during a visit to DCMH with Joan K. Richards, president and chief operating officer of Crozer-Keystone Health System, and William McCune, chief operating officer of DCMH and CKHS vice president.

Representative Civera was instrumental in facilitating the grant, which will provide funding for critical care beds and a negative-pressure room. Negative-pressure rooms are used in the hospital setting to quarantine patients with airborne illnesses. 

DCMH completed a renovation and expansion of its Emergency Department in the spring of 2004. The new, 10,000-square-foot ED features 33 private treatment rooms, a spacious waiting area, a separate children’s waiting area, a separate entrance for patients arriving by ambulance, a “fast track” area designed to provide quick and easy care for patients with less-complex problems, and other state-of-the-art amenities. More than 36,000 patients are treated in the Emergency Department each year.

Delaware County Memorial Hospital is a member of Crozer-Keystone Health System. We’re 5 hospitals, 2,600 doctors and nurses, and 7,100 caring people with 1 vision. Crozer-Keystone. Something to feel good about.