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Each year, over 80,000 patients receive urgent and trauma care at St. Joseph’s Hospital Emergency Room. While we can't prevent most accidents and medical emergencies, Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center is dedicated to providing immediate assessment and stabilization every day for trauma injuries like car crashes, falls, gun shots, and traumatic wounds.
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Leader in emergency & trauma care
St. Joseph's Emergency Department physicians are board-certified in Emergency Medicine, and our nursing staff is certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Trauma Nurse Core Curriculum (TNCC).
The St. Joseph's Emergency Department features:
- Six trauma bays with cutting-edge technology, including overhead X-ray machines and equipment booms
- 72 emergency bays (All the rooms in the ED are equipped for patients of any acuity, both adult and pediatric)
- A family consultation room
- A family viewing room
- A special area for computed tomography and radiology. This area contains two new 64-slice CT scanners. These will facilitate quicker and clearer images of patients
- An ambulance entrance, walk-in entrance and waiting area
- A heliport
- ERAdvisor that provides text updates to patients and families about their progress in the emergency department
In Fiscal Year 2023, St. Joseph's had 127,234 Emergency Department visits.
A history of trauma care leadership
St. Joseph's has been at the forefront of trauma care for decades.
- 1970 > Launched the Valley's first Medical Emergency Assistance Program, the precursor to 9-1-1
- 1983 > Establishing the first Level I Trauma Center for both neurological and trauma cases
- 1986 > Opening the first Trauma Research Lab
St. Joseph's also provides medical education and conducts research regarding numerous emergency-related topics, such as sepsis, a life-threatening infection resulting from severe injuries.