Staff in the Emergency Department ensure a personal experience for patients and their families while providing expert emergency care for more than 60,000 patients yearly.
Our Department and Facilities Include:
- 60,000 square feet of clinical space
- 35 private rooms including:
- Dedicated rooms for:
- Pediatric patients
- Major trauma and medical resuscitations
- Behavioral health emergencies
- Special room for:
- Dental emergencies
- Ear emergencies
- Eye emergencies
- Dedicated rooms for:
- 35 private rooms including:
- Experienced emergency nurses supported by clerical staff, nursing assistants, paramedics, and social workers
- Crisis Stabilization Unit facilitates prompt care for psychiatric emergencies in comfortable home-like environment
- Home to the UI Chest Pain Center for prompt evaluation, treatment, and counseling for patients with chest pain
- Host facility and medical control base for the Johnson County Ambulance Service
- Level I Trauma Center for adult and pediatric patients
- Highest level designated by the American College of Surgeons
- Verified as a Resource Trauma Care facility by the Iowa Department of Public Health
- Only Emergency Medicine residency in the state of Iowa
- Staffed primarily by board-certified emergency physicians and board-certified pediatric specialists
- Specialties available to staff for consultation and admission, including:
- Anesthesia
- Cardiology
- Internal Medicine
- Orthopedics
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
