Wednesday, September 06, 2000
AK Steel's gift helps new center
By Sue Kiesewetter
Enquirer Contributor
MIDDLETOWN — The size of the emergency department at Middletown Regional Hospital will triple once a cardiac evaluation center is added.
The project got a boost Monday when AK Steel chairman and CEO Richard M. Wardrop Jr. announced this week that the AK Steel Foundation will donate $500,000 to the center over the next four years. The pledge came as AK Steel hosted a community party celebrating 100 years of steel making in Middletown, attended by an estimated 40,000 people.
“This new center will help ensure that the right type of cardiac care is available to the community,” Mr. Wardrop said in a statement.
About 55,000 people are expected to be treated in the hospital's emergency department by year's end, up from 50,000 in 1999, said Douglas W. McNeill, president and chief executive officer of the hospital. Among those are about 2,500 people who seek treatment for chest pains or cardiac-related ailments.
“Heart-related problems are a big part of (emergency care) and we expect it to continue to grow,” Mr. McNeill said. “We're very appreciative not only of (AK Steel's) generosity but also of their confidence in us.”
This is the second major gift to the hospital by AK Steel in recent years. In 1998 the foundation provided a $30,000 grant that funded the Community Diabetes Resource Library in the Diabetes Wellness Center.
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