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Emergency & Trauma Care

Emergency Department Services & Features

The Emergency Department at St. Anthony's Medical Center features:

• 43 state-of-the-art treatment rooms
• five crisis rooms, equipped to treat the most critical patients
• a fast-track area designed to treat less serious injuries and illnesses appropriately and efficiently
• separate entrances for ambulances and walk-in patients
• a hazardous-materials decontamination facility
• a centralized computer system, giving personnel instant access to patient information for more efficient care
• a waiting area close to triage, allowing staff to update loved ones on patient conditions
• 24-hour security
• Pediatric Emergency Department

Level II Trauma Center

The Emergency Department at St. Anthony's Medical Center is a designated Level II Trauma Center — the only one in the South County area — and is staffed by highly skilled doctors, nurses and other professional staff uniquely trained in the care and treatment of all degrees of medical emergency.

This designation means St. Anthony's:

• can receive patients by helicopter for treatment or stabilization,
• has the resources needed to manage care of severely injured patients at all times,
  
• nurses in the Emergency Department, Operating Room and Intensive Care Unit receive additional training in the care of severely injured trauma patients, and
  
• emergency physicians are immediately available and prepared to deal with trauma 24 hours a day. Trauma surgeons, neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons are on call and ready to respond when needed.

Chest Pain Center

St. Anthony’s Medical Center has earned the highest level of accreditation available as a chest pain center.

Innovation

St. Anthony's Emergency Department is one of the largest and most sophisticated in the area. In fact, clinical practitioners and administrators from hospitals all over the country have come to St. Anthony’s to study innovative linear design and efficient communication systems.

Some hospitals learning from St. Anthony's include:

• Duke University Hospital in North Carolina
• Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.
• Hillcrest Hospital of the Cleveland Clinic Group in Ohio
• Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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