Emergency Medicine
Emergency Department
WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
The University Hospital is the flagship teaching institution for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Staffed with over 300 full-time faculty members, the hospital is a tertiary care center that offers services in over 25 specialties. Our institution has 50 programs where the resident and fellow complement is about 630. The University Hospital has 504 inpatient beds, which accommodate 19,000 admissions and 2700 births annually. There are over 215,000 outpatient visits annually.
The Emergency Department has 21 curtained ED patient care slots, most of which can accommodate two patients. All of the beds in the ED are monitored and may be used for acute care. In addition, there are 5 specialized trauma bays, and a shock trauma bay, pictured above, which may be used as an operating room. There is a Fast Track area, our Urgent Care, which has 8 beds and a well-equipped ENT/EYE treatment room. Pediatric Emergency has 11 beds and its own GYN and Acute Care rooms. Psychiatric Emergency has an additional 6 beds and is located next door to Adult Emergency.
Radiology is located just next to the Emergency Department, incorporating 4 radiology exam rooms, an ultrasound suite, two dedicated multi-detector helical CT scanners, and Lodox imaging system installed in our trauma room. MRI and 2 angiography suites are also located in the radiology suite. All ED radiologic images are digital and can be accessed within the clinical areas by computer. Radiology attendings or residents are available to read our studies at all times.
The University Hospital also receives patients via air transport, the Northern Shock Trauma Air Rescue (NorthSTAR). Together with our ground-based critical care transport service and our University Hospital-based fleet of EMS ambulances, the University Hospital provides the people of Newark and New Jersey with state-of-the-art emergency medical care. Medical Control for EMS and for Northstar is provided by our residents and attendings. EKGs of suspected AMI patients are transmitted via telemetry to the ED and to cardiologists on call. When stroke patients, trauma patients and patients with acute MI are en route, our dispatchers notify the appropriate teams so that they are waiting in the ED when the patient arrives.