Co-location of employees will eliminate this ongoing lease expense, streamline operations, and enhance service. Classroom and Administrative Space for County health staff or those interested in collaborating with Pima County. The Emergency Department originally designed for Kino Community Hospital has become dated by lack of security, accommodations for psychiatric patients, separation of ambulance traffic, and working space for staff. This redesign will enhance security and create efficiencies at the same time. Urgent Care services now provided by the clinics would be relocated to the Emergency Department area providing economies of scale for triage, registration and treatment functions.
Current equipment is several generations behind.
Current equipment for sterilizing surgical instruments is aged and subject to frequent repair. Replacement parts are difficult to obtain, unavailable or must be manufactured. As a result, current equipment works at 50 percent capacity. Kino Community Hospital is now twenty years old and needs a number of repairs and capital improvements. Annual repair costs will decline upon replacement of outdated capital equipment.