April 7, 2008
St. Luke’s opens new
Community Emergency Center at Vintage
The Woodlands, TX —St. Luke's The Woodlands Hospital recently opened a new Community Emergency Center in the Vintage community of the Houston/Tomball area.
Located at 10701 Vintage Preserve Parkway, at State Highway 249 and Louetta, St. Luke’s Community Emergency Center - Vintage offers emergency care to local residents 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
The free-standing, 13,000 square-foot center is staffed by board-certified emergency medicine physicians and emergency-trained nurses who are trained to treat infants, children, teens and adults for emergencies such as sprains, strains, suspected broken bones, burns, nose bleeds, influenza, severe chest pain and upper respiratory problems.
The state-of-the-art facility features 14 patient rooms including a pediatric area. Services include an on-site full-stat laboratory, x-ray, and a rapid CT scanner by licensed radiology technicians.
Debra Sukin,CEO of SLTWH, cuts the ribbon with the Greater Tomball Area Chamber of Commerce in celebration of a new Community Emergency Center in The Vintage community.
St. Luke's The Woodlands Hospital is located at 17200 St. Luke’s Way in The Woodlands, at the southwest corner of SH 242 and I-45. For more information, call 936-266-2000 or visit www.stlukeswoodlands.com. ###
St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System Corporation is composed of St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in the Texas Medical Center, founded in 1954 by the Episcopal Diocese of Texas; St. Luke's The Woodlands Hospital; St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities, a charity devoted to assessing and enhancing community health, especially among the underserved; KS Management Services, LLC, overseeing 18 area clinic locations; St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System Foundation; St. Luke’s Episcopal Properties Corporation; SLEHS Holdings, Inc.; and, St. Luke’s Community Development Corporation. St. Luke’s Sugar Land Hospital is under construction, scheduled to open in 2008, and St. Luke’s Clear Lake Hospital is scheduled to open in 2010. Plans are underway for St. Luke’s Lakeside Hospital in The Woodlands. St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital is home to the Texas Heart® Institute, which was founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley, MD, and is consistently ranked among the top 10 cardiology and heart surgery centers in the nation by U.S.News & World Report. Affiliated with several nursing schools and two medical schools, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital was the first hospital in Texas named a Magnet hospital for nursing excellence, and twice has been honored with the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ by HealthGrades, a leading independent company that measures healthcare quality in hospitals. The Health System has been recognized by FORTUNE as among the “100 Best Companies to Work For” and by the Houston Business Journal as a top employer in Houston.
