The Texas Panhandle is getting a new emergency room, reports The Canyon News. But this ER isn’t in a hospital—it will be located on the block between I-40 and Amarillo Boulevard. Having an emergency room outside of a hospital is not new to Texas, but it’s new to the Panhandle. The facility is being opened by four seasoned ER doctors, who have 60 years of combined ER experience. The new emergency room, known as ER/NOW, opened for business at 7 a.m. last Friday. It will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The physicians will work 24 hour shifts, while the rest of the staff will work 12 hour shifts.
The facility will be a full-fledged emergency department, with onsite laboratory facilities, radiology, CT scans, and ultra stenography.