Unusually, this appears to be a lack of rooms rather than a lack of adequate staffing levels.

Joe Scott, the hospital’s chief operating officer, tells us there are plans to build 35 more hospital rooms to help provide some relief to the emergency department.

“It is going to help us out tremendously; it is going to be a value added which will help our hospital to continue to provide the level of care that we want for our patients,” Scott said.

St. Rose Siena is one of the last non-profit hospitals in the Las Vegas Valley, Scott added. He says capacity issues have led to treating patients in hallways for several years now.

But with funding now in place, the planned hospital expansion is expected to be finished next summer.