Triumph Hospital Amarillo Expands to Medical Center

(Amarillo, Texas/November 26, 2007) – Houston based Triumph HealthCare, the nation’s third largest provider of long-term acute care (LTAC) services, today announced expansion plans for their Amarillo hospital. The new location is expected to begin accepting patients as soon as some minor renovations are complete. The hospital will operate 64 private rooms to include a state of the art, fully licensed 7 bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The 63,000 square foot newly constructed building, formerly High Plains Hospital, will be located directly across from the Amarillo Medical Center on the corner of Wallace and Research Blvd.

“Triumph Hospital Amarillo specializes in providing services to medically complex patients for whom the short-term acute care hospitals, like Baptist St. Anthony and Northwest, are no longer the most appropriate or cost-effective setting,” stated Charles L. Allen, President and CEO for Triumph HealthCare. “The average length of stay for patients in our specialty hospital is over 25 days compared with the 5 to 7 day lengths of stay in general hospitals,” added Allen.

Triumph Hospital Amarillo is designed to care for those patients requiring extended hospitalizations due to a chronic disease process or catastrophic illness or injury. Allen said the new hospital will expand upon the "higher end services" that are currently provided in the existing location, including intensive care services, special procedures, in-house radiology with CT services, and other diagnostic capabilities.

“We currently employ over 130 full time employees and anticipate adding new jobs with our expanded capabilities,” relayed Jeff Smith, Region Vice President of Operations for the facility. “Triumph Hospital Amarillo currently is located in a facility that was built in 1968. The plan will be to operate both campuses until the end of the year and eventually consolidate operations at years end.” Initially, the new location will accommodate 35 patients. We will begin immediately renovations to make ready the additional patient rooms and build out our new procedure and diagnostic space.

Triumph’s existing Amarillo location, formerly SCCI Hospital Amarillo, is located at 2828 West 27th Avenue. Triumph HealthCare acquired SCCI Hospitals in August 2005.