Parkridge Health System is looking at building a facility to provide emergency services on Camp Jordan Parkway at the entrance to one of Hamilton County’s largest recreational parks, officials said.
The East Ridge City Council has agreed on the first of two required votes to rezone vacant land from a commercial district to a hospital and institutions district to make way for the proposed medical facility.
Mayor Brian Williams said in a telephone interview Tuesday that he understands the need is greater than the capacity at Parkridge East Hospital’s emergency medical facilities on Spring Creek Road.
“It will be a full-fledged emergency room facility with beds and everything,” he said.
Williams said a second and final reading on the rezoning for the property across from Topgolf will go before the council on Feb. 24.