CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Chesapeake Regional Medical Center is preparing to open a new 36-bed neurology unit inside the Richard S. Bray Critical Care Tower to serve stroke and neurology patients. Hospital officials say they're still working to hire more nurses to staff the facility.

The new unit, called 6 South, has been in development for about five years and will expand the hospital's capacity to treat neurological conditions.

"The type of patients that we'll see here are, of course, our stroke patients, anybody with neuro-deficits, seizures, any type of brain surgery," said Kimberly Green, director of Acute Care Services at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare.

The facility is an upgrade of the hospital's existing 30-bed stroke unit on 6 West.

“We see a lot of stroke patients. So currently, righ

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