St. John’s Emergency Department is equipped and staffed to provide excellent emergency medical care 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
 

We maintain a friendly, service-oriented atmosphere for all patients and their loved ones. Located within a tertiary referral medical center, St. John’s Emergency Trauma Center provides a comprehensive full-service emergency department.
 

St. John’s Hospital is a state-designated Level 1 trauma center for adults and pediatrics, a nationally certified Stroke Center, a Pediatric Hospital, and is regionally recognized cardiovascular center of excellence.
 

Level I is the highest designation for Emergency/Trauma care. Level I facilities are characterized by 24-hour staffing of surgeons and anesthesiologists, and prompt access to care by specialists in orthopedic, neurosurgery, emergency medicine, radiology, internal medicine and critical care. Additionally, Level I facilities offer educational, preventative and outreach programs within the communities they serve.
 

St. John’s emergency physicians are all residency trained and/or board certified in emergency medicine and our nursing staff has additional training and qualifications specific to working in emergency medicine. Our staff provides 97 hours of physician coverage and 11 hours of additional coverage with a nurse practitioner each 24-hour period.
 

A new state-of-the-art emergency department (ED) opened on Feb. 1, 2005, and has 35 treatment rooms in the main ED area and 10 treatment rooms in our acute care center. Our staff members use a new electronic emergency department information system (EDIS) that allows more efficient patient tracking, order entry, and retrieval of laboratory and radiology results.