West Hills ER to open

West Hills Hospital and Medical Center will open a $60 million, state-of-the-art emergency department and critical-care unit next week, nearly a decade after the project was first proposed. Susan Abram in the Daily News.

The two-story addition is designed to transform West Hills Hospital from a community facility to a regional health care center, said president and CEO Beverly Gilmore.

"You've got to evolve to the patients' needs," said Gilmore, who has been at the hospital since 2004.