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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Emergency room service is coming back to South Wilkes-Barre.</p><p>Geisinger Health System has announced a $5 million investment to create a new emergency center at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre, where the emergency facility was converted to an urgent care operation in 2009.</p><p>&#8220;We made a commitment to our communities to provide quality, specialty care close to home,&#8221; Geisinger Northeast regional President Anthony Aquilina said in a media release. &#8220;That commitment was behind the decision to bring back emergency services to GSWB.&#8221;</p><p>Geisinger acquired the former Mercy Hospital on Church Street in 2005 and wasted little time altering services, focusing the location on urgent care, same-day and short-stay surgeries, pain management and rehabilitation. Geisinger Wyoming Valley in Plains Township expanded to accommodate acute care and major medical, including emergency room services.</p><p>The return of an emergency department comes with other expansions. GSWB will have 13 &#8220;newly renovated medical and surgical units that will offer all-private patient rooms&#8221; to house patients coming from the emergency department or who undergo surgical procedures requiring an inpatient stay. Full-service radiology and expanded laboratory services are also in the mix.</p><p>&#8220;The re-opening of a state-of-the-art, refurbished emergency department represents another critical step toward a very bright future for GSWB,&#8221; said Ron Beer, chief administrative officer, Geisinger Northeast.</p><p>The changes are expected to be completed next year.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Geisinger south Wilkes-Barre. AIMEE DILGER Photos/The Times Leader 6/25/2008</div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/web1_Geisinger_South_Wilkes-Barre-1.jpeg</photo0><caption0>Geisinger south Wilkes-Barre. AIMEE DILGER Photos/The Times Leader 6/25/2008</caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Mark Guydish</p><p>mguydish@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Mark Guydish at 570-991-6112 or on Twitter @TLMarkGuydish</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Geisinger to reopen emergency room in Wilkes-Barre facility