|
 Children's
Hospital of The King's Daughters, Norfolk
The Children's Hospital of The King's
Daughters (CHKD) is the only dedicated pediatric hospital in the
Commonwealth of Virginia. The Emergency Department consists of nearly
20,000 square feet of patient care, administrative and conference
space. There are 32 patient care beds; two critical care beds; one ENT
room; two GYN rooms; one orthopedic room; seven minor care/fast track
rooms; one bereavement /grief room; one locked psychiatric room; two
suture rooms; and fifteen general medical beds. The Emergency
Department has an annual census of 35,000 patients, with an approximate
12 percent admission rate from the Emergency Department.
Top
 Sentara Norfolk General Hospital,
Norfolk
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital (SNGH)
serves as the primary training site for the Emergency Medicine Residency
Program.
It is the only Level I Trauma Center in
the area. SNGH has 644 beds and provides state-of-the-art services such
as coronary artery bypass surgery, cardiac and renal transplant,
in-vitro fertilization, renal dialysis and intensive burn care. There
are approximately 1,000 physicians on the medical staff.
The Emergency Department (ED) has
approximately 51,000 annual patient visits; 20 percent of all ED
patients are admitted to the hospital, with 13 percent of those to an
intensive-care setting. As a university-type teaching hospital,
residents from all major specialties are available for consultation on a
24-hour basis.
All types of studies (i.e., CT, MRI,
ultrasound, peripheral vascular) are available 24 hours a day. The ED
has 16,000 square feet of patient care space, 600 square feet of
administrative space, 168 square feet of administrative space and 168
square feet of conference space. There are a total of 34 patient care
beds: 13 monitored beds; three GYN beds; one locked psychiatric room
with a 24-hour video camera; eight minor-care rooms; one
medical/pediatric resuscitation room; three open-trauma resuscitation
rooms and one closed-trauma resuscitation room; one cast room; and two
general care beds.
We are currently undergoing renovations
and expansion, which should be completed in July 2007. Once completed,
the new ED will have an additional 10,000 square feet of patient care
space and several hundred feet of additional administrative space. The
new ED will consist of an eight-room Minor Care area, 14-room Main
Treatment Area, two-room Trauma bay, seven Critical Care rooms, six
Observation rooms, five Psychiatric/Psychiatric Observation rooms and
two Triage bays. The majority of rooms can easily be transitioned to
higher care rooms (i.e., from an Observation room to a Main Treatment
Area room).
|
|
Sentara Nightingale
Helicopter Ambulance |
In addition, there is a HAZMAT
decontamination room with a shower, a family consultation room and a
rescue squad office. All monitored beds, trauma resuscitation beds and
medical/pediatric resuscitation rooms contain Space Lab monitors, with
blood pressure, pulse, cardiac monitoring, and pulse oximetry
capability. A Stat Lab is located within the Emergency Department. This
lab can run all of the usual tests used in an ED.
The Radiology Department is located
adjacent to the ED on the first floor. In addition, we have our own
dedicated ED ultrasound machine, which allows residents to gain valuable
experience and expertise in performing ED ultrasound. There is a second
dedicated ED ultrasound machine for the Trauma bays.
Sentara Nightingale, the only
helicopter ambulance available in the area, is based at SNGH.
Top
 Sentara Obici General Hospital,
Suffolk
Sentara Obici Hospital (SOH) is located
approximately 25 minutes driving distance from the primary training
site. It is located in a mixed suburban/rural area, providing valuable
exposure to community and rural emergency medicine.
The Emergency Department at SOH has an
annual census of 34,000 patients. The ED has a 23-bed main treatment
area, including four trauma/cardiac rooms and two dedicated gyn rooms.
It also has a dedicated minor-care area.
Top
 Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital,
Virginia Beach
Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital (SVBGH) is located just a few minutes from the Atlantic Ocean resort district and approximately twenty minutes driving distance from the primary training site. It provides our residents with valuable experience working in the Emergency Department of a busy community hospital. A Level II Trauma Center, there is ample opportunity for residents to evaluate and manage critically ill and injured patients. Residents also have the opportunity to gain experience in evaluating environmental injuries, including dysbaric injury, marine envenomation and poisoning, drowning/near drowning, hyperthermia, and hypothermia. The Emergency Department
at SVGBH has an annual census of 54,000 patients. The ED has 4,803 square feet of patient care space. There are 28 patient care beds; four resuscitation/trauma rooms; two GYN rooms; two pediatric rooms; three orthopedic beds; eight general medical beds; one ENT/Eye room; one isolation room; one decontamination room; and six minor care beds. In addition, there is a bereavement/grief room
and a dedicated Radiology suite in the Emergency Department. The Radiology Department is located immediately adjacent to the Emergency Department on the first floor.
Top
|
