BOARDMAN Health center nears opening date

The St. Elizabeth Boardman Campus has about 75 employees.
BOARDMAN -- St. Elizabeth Health Center's new $14 million emergency and diagnostic center at Market Street and McClurg Road will begin seeing patients Wednesday.
A ribbon cutting, blessing ceremony and public open house were held Thursday at the 56,000-square-foot facility.
The St. Elizabeth Boardman Campus, which includes the emergency center, along with wellness and cancer centers, has about 75 employees, including 60 at the emergency and diagnostic center.
The emergency center was designed with a "healing and calming atmosphere", which includes lighted ceiling pictures in the MRI and ultra sound rooms, natural lighting in the emergency room, piped-in music, and a fish pond outside, said Genie Aubel, senior vice president of Humility of Mary Health Partners (HMHP) and Boardman Campus administrator.
In addition, there is an emphasis on customer service.
"We've built and staffed it to get people in and out quickly," she said.
The modular building that formerly housed the emergency department in Boardman, which saw about 17,000 patients in 2002, will be dismantled and sold and the space used for parking, Aubel said.
Services and programs
The Boardman emergency room houses radiology services, ultrasound, mammography, laboratory services, a donor blood bank, pulmonary and neurology testing, and community classrooms available for rental for community activities and meetings.
St. Elizabeth has a Level 1 trauma center, certified for both adult and pediatric patients, at its main facility in Youngstown.
Other services on the Boardman Campus include a Wellness Center at the D.D. and Velma Davis Family YMCA and the Cancer Care Center.
St. Elizabeth is affiliated with the recently dedicated Boardman YMCA, where the hospital houses its wellness center and offers programs and services such as corporate care, speech pathology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, industrial rehabilitation, sports medicine and aquatic therapy, officials said.
The Cancer Center, in Boardman since 1999, includes an Oncology Learning Center with resources based on a holistic approach to cancer.
The HMHP system includes two acute care hospitals, St. Elizabeth in Youngstown and St. Joseph Health Center in Warren, and various other facilities around the area. HMHP has about 5,000 employees.