The hospital system is building a freestanding emergency room in Scott's Addition, a neighborhood that currently doesn't have one. The ER is set to be built on the property across from Wawa and the Diamond.

"It has been a long time coming, and I think is a really exciting milestone for us," Devin Tobin, Chief Operating Officer of Henrico Doctors Hospital, said.

HCA says the freestanding ER will be open 24/7, 365 days a year. It will be fully staffed by ER-trained doctors and nurses, equipped to handle everything from heart attacks and strokes to broken bones, dehydration, sports injuries and cuts requiring stitches.

This is unlike urgent care, which has limited hours and can only treat certain conditions.

"An ER is from an outcome perspective. We're talking about seconds that truly inf

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