Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital to Re-open at 1:00 p.m.

Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital will re-open at 1:00 p.m. The Emergency Department will resume accepting patients at that time. Engineers have determined that the water line break did not cause serious infrastructure damage. The hospital's water supply, electricity and computer syatems are functioning normally. Clean-up continues in the water-damaged areas. The cause of the 1-inch water line break has not been determined. Hospital officials are still calculating a damage estimate.