Emergency Room - Kennewick

If a patient is in need of surgery or hospitalization, Kadlec’s new ER will transfer patients to the hospital. Ambulance fees may apply.

Kadlec’s Freestanding ER provides the same quality emergency care as Kadlec’s hospital-based Emergency Department, but operations are slightly different. The facility is specially designed for our patient‘s privacy, comfort and convenience. It has its own equipment, lab and imaging services that do not have to be shared, like in a hospital-based facility. Because the staff is cross-trained in multiple disciplines they are able to work as a unified team and focus on providing responsive treatment so that treatment and wait times are drastically reduced.

Freestanding ER facilities are designed with the patient in mind. The layout of Freestanding facilities provide for private patient care, by bringing services to the patient bedside and provide efficient workflow for staff.

Kadlec’s Freestanding ER is open around the clock, while Kadlec’s Urgent Care hours are more limited—open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Our Freestanding ER is staffed with board-certified emergency medicine physicians and advance practice providers. At Kadlec’s Urgent Care, our physicians and advance practice providers are certified in family medicine.

Our Freestanding ER is fully equipped to take care of life threatening illnesses while Urgent Care centers offer the same level of medical treatment you’d find at a primary care clinic.

Freestanding ER Facilities have their own equipment, lab and imaging services that are dedicated to patient needs and do not compete with hospital resource needs. This provides quicker services with minimal wait times.

Kadlec Urgent Care is unable to treat workplace injuries at this time.

Teams providing care in Freestanding ER’s are specially trained in multiple disciplines, allowing them to provide a continuum of care to their patients. They are part of a unified care team, focused on providing responsive treatment.

The reason is simple: Kadlec is meeting community demand. Kadlec has offered medical services throughout the Tri-Cities in many ways, through primary and specialty care physician clinics, urgent care centers, and now this new model of emergency care. Looking at the community’s continued population growth, it is apparent that the current available emergency services are not enough to meet the demand.

As the population of a community grows, hospital-based emergency departments become overcrowded. Congestion in Emergency Departments put additional stress on both hospital and emergency services. Freestanding ER’s help to relieve that stress while also offering faster care.