Regions Hospital

Regions hospital is a teriteray care facility which serves as the referal center for the East metro and Western Wisconsin communities. It is an accredated level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center as well as a burn, stroke and heart center.  There is a 3 year emergency medicine residency which has expanded to 10 residents/year starting in 2010. The hospital opened a new Emergency Department in 2010 which sees 70,000 patients per year with 750 trauma team activations. There is also a dedicated library as well as conference and office space.  EM faculty run the Healthpartners simulation center and are in the process of developing a new simulation space. The residency is affiliated with the University of Minnesota department of Emergency Medicine and educates medical, nursing and physician assistant students