Throughout the Pandemic, Pomerene Hospital Emergency Department has remained open to care for our Community! We know there are concerns about catching the virus, but if you have a true health emergency do not delay getting care that could negatively impact your health in the future.

It is important that you feel safe and confident when you are a patient in any of our facilities.

• Your health matters, don’t wait to get medical care.
• Our Emergency Department team is always ready when you need us - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
• We are taking extra steps to keep you safe! From re-arranged waiting rooms to screening everyone that enters our facilities.Here are some of the additional steps we are taking to protect you:Isolating those with COVID-19 in designated areas and units.
• Requiring everyone to wear mask. No worries if you don’t have one, we will provide one for you.
• Expanding the distance between chairs in waiting areas.
• Frequent cleaning of high-touch areas, deep cleaning between patients, and using an UV Cleaning Robot multiples times per day.
• Limiting visitation (find updated visitor restrictions here) 
• Screening every person when they enter the hospital-patients, visitors, and employees are screened and temperatures taken.

You can be confident that our Emergency Department is safe, operational and prepared to handle health emergencies when you need us.