Premier Health debuts $11.5M facility in Mason

Atrium Health Center Mason brings 110 jobs to area.

Premier Health’s latest multi-million dollar investment in Warren County is now open for business.

The Dayton-based health system celebrated with weekend-long events its $11.5 million Atrium Health Center Mason, located at 7450 Mason-Montgomery Road. The 24-hour emergency center and other services open to patients at 7 a.m. Tuesday.

“Free-standing emergency centers with ancillary services provide critical access points for patients,” said James Pancoast, president and chief executive officer of Premier Health.

Atrium Health Center Mason will complement existing Premier Health services in the Mason area, including primary care, occupational medicine, physical therapy, laboratory and imaging services.

“We hope Mason gets to know Premier and Atrium,” said Carol J. Turner, president and CEO of Atrium Medical Center. “Premier is sort of an unknown this far south.”

Atrium Health Center Mason will have up to 110 jobs once all pieces of the building are filled, Turner said.

In total, the 44,000-square-foot Atrium Health Center Mason includes a 13-bed emergency center; laboratory; medical imaging including X-ray, CT scan, MRI and ultrasound; cardiology and outpatient services on the first floor.

The second floor houses the Center for Women’s Health and Wellness; women’s imaging including 3D mammography and bone density testing; and specialty physician offices including family medicine, cardiology, maternal fetal medicine and pulmonology.

“This is such a thriving area,” Turner said. “This will bring new jobs and another facility to the area.”

Turner said patients — especially young families and millennials — like having locations close to home for quick and convenient medical care.

Pancoast said the Premier Health network, which includes Atrium in Middletown, had over 280,000 emergency department visits last year.

The new emergency center in Mason includes two trauma bays that can accommodate up to four critical patients, as well as a behavioral health room for emotionally-disturbed patients, said Joey Brumfield, RN.

The ED also features a medication room to be restocked twice a week; a nurse and physician lounge; a private lounge for emergency medical services workers; and Premier Health’s first standing washer for EMS crews to wash, rinse and sanitize up to four ambulance backboards at once.

Brumfield said a telemedicine machine in the ED will not only be used for advanced stroke care, but also to assess behavioral health patients for depression and anxiety using a social worker.

Each patient room has touch-screen monitors that automatically update a nurse’s computer charts.

“It allows us to keep a better eye on the patient and adjust care,” Brumfield said.

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