Regions
Hospital
Regions
Hospital opened a new Emergency Center on July 1, 1995.
The facility is more than 15,000 square feet with 34 treatment
rooms including 7 resuscitation rooms. In addition to the
Emergency Center, the addition also included 8,000 square
feet for a departmental library, conference space and offices
for faculty, residents and other department personnel. There
are two conference rooms used for educational conferences
and meetings. We have an on-call sleep room, and a large
area for resident office space.
Residents also spend
time at other Twin
Cities' hospitals for a well rounded experience
We also have a Immersive Photo Tour of our ED. (Java required)
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Emergency
Department Statistics:
- Approximately 60,000 patient visits per year
- Approximately 13% of patients are age 16 or under
- Approximately 2500 trauma admissions and 700 trauma
team activations each year
- 17% admission rate
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ED Staffing:
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Full-time
faculty supervision 24 hours per day; double coverage
by faculty 16 hours a day
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One PGY-3
and one PGY-2 Emergency Medicine resident are assigned
to the Emergency Department 24 hours a day
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Five to six
PGY-1 and 2 residents from Medicine, Family Medicine,
Obstetrics, and Psychiatry rotate to the ED each
month
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Physician
Assistants present during most shifts (8 FTEs)
- Nursing staff includes RNs, emergency room technicians,
and clerks
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Resident
Facilities: Residents
have access to a great deal of resources on the Regions
campus. Library:
The residents have a large office space for
personal work and socializing during down-time.
Also, there is a library within the departmental offices,
equiped with journals, audio and video media, TV, VCR,
DVD Player, and computers. Access is available
24/7. Hospital
Library: The Regions
Hospital Medical Library is available for an extensive
journal selection, more computer access, study space,
and research librarians with interlibrary loan access.
Access to this facility is also 24/7. The Bio-Medical
Library (Diehl Hall) on the University of Minnesota
campus is also available to residents. We have daily
interlibrary loan service with the Bio-Medical Library.
On-Call
room: An on-call sleep room is provided
for residents working in the ED, seperate from those
available to off-service residents.
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