Community Outreach
The Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center continues to manage a large number of patients through the two Emergency Departments and three Urgent Care Centers. In the fiscal year ending June 2009, there was a total of 43,074 visits. Each of the clinical services is important to our mission. Operationally, Joseph Luria, MD, is the overall Medical Director of these services and leads a team of faculty and clinicians in improvement of our delivery system to patients and families.
- The base Emergency Department (Avondale Campus) is the core ED and Level 1 Trauma Center.
- Medical Director – Joseph Luria, MD
- FY 09 – 90,290 patients with 14% admissions
- Liberty Campus ED: The Liberty Township Campus opened in August 2008, with a 24 hour ED that includes full pediatric emergency medicine attending coverage. Additional extended coverage with pediatricians and advanced practice nurses have grown over the past year.
- Medical Director – Todd Glass, MD
- FY 09 – 24,812 visits in 10.5 months
- Satellite Urgent Care Centers: These are open after office hours and weekends and are staffed by pediatricians in the Division of Emergency Medicine committed to acute care pediatrics. They offer lower acuity care and local access to quality pediatric care.
- Urgent Care Anderson – 10,051 patients
- Urgent Care Fairfield – 8,729 patients
- Urgent Care Mason – 9,192 patients
- StatLine Communication Center for referrals of patients from EDs, community offices and other settings continues to be housed in the main campus ED for both ED referrals. It is online medical control for life squads, the regional disaster network and Air Care. The Cincinnati Children's Regional Transport Team is a partner in the Center where dispatch of pediatric transport from Cincinnati Children's is instituted.
- Medical Director – Hamilton Schwartz, MD
- FY09 – 131,000 calls of all types, 17,000 referrals of patients by health care providers and 3,580 EMS calls
