Community Outreach
The Cincinnati Children's Emergency Services continues to be one of the busiest emergency departments for children in the United States, with approximately 84,000 visits in fiscal year ending June 2000. We have continued to reach out to the community to fill the needs of acutely ill or injured children. The division provides care through a number of important outreach services:
- Outpatient North Urgent Care under the medical direction of Margaret Orcutt Tuddenham, DO, treated over 7,000 patients in fiscal year ending 2000.
- Outpatient Anderson Urgent Care, scheduled to open in fall of 2000, will serve the medical needs of eastern Hamilton, Clermont and Adams Counties.
- St. Elizabeth's South Medical Center Emergency Department is currently staffed by Cincinnati Children's emergency medicine physicians in the busy evening hours under the medical direction of Margaret Orcutt Tuddenham, DO. During these hours, the staff treated approximately 10,000 children and young adults.
- StatLine Communication Center has been under the medical direction of Joseph Luria, MD. It receives over 21,000 referrals a year and is the lifeline to EMS units, receiving 1,300 calls per year from squads and arranging over 750 incoming transports.
- After Hours Phone Service, initiated in 1996, gives medical advice to patients through physician-designed protocols individualized to each practice by a nurse call system. Charles Schubert, MD, of emergency medicine and Raymond Baker, MD, of general pediatrics provide medical direction with administrative assistance of Michael Buncher.
