Franklin Hospital in Benton, Ill., will upgrade its emergency room security, according to an article on the WPSD website. 

The expansion also will create space for a pharmacy, upgraded equipment and a new nuclear medicine program.

The hospital's emergency room doesn't currently meet HIPPA standards.

"When you walk into our emergency room, you're right at the nurses station where there's a couple of nurses and a doctor,” Business Development Officer Derek Johnson  said. “If you're in a patient's room you can hear everything going on at the nurses station. The way it will be reconfigured, the nurses station will be enclosed."

"We're working hard to stay current,”  Chief Operating Officer Mike Budnick said. “We don't want to be trying to keep up with the Jones's but that's what our patients expect when they go other places. So, we need to be able to offer them the same type of service in a quality manner here."

Read the article.