Emergency
If you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911 or go to the Emergency Department at Stanford Hospital & Clinics.
The Emergency Department is a Level-1 Trauma Center, the highest designation possible for an emergency medical facility. It is a 23 bed department staffed by board certified Emergency Medicine physicians, residents, and nursing staff with specialized training in Emergency, Pediatric, and Trauma Nursing.
In addition, our Patient Admitting Representatives, Unit Secretaries, and Volunteers are ready to meet your needs. Emergency Department visits this year are expected to reach 40,000 patients.
The Emergency Medicine Division also includes a Life Flight Medical Transport program that provides high-quality medical care 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Important Facts about the Emergency Department
- No appointments are necessary
- We do not give medical advice over the telephone. Feel free to come to the Emergency Department at any time or call your private physician for medical advice
- Patients arrive by private car, taxi, ambulances, and helicopter (Life Flight)
- Fully staffed Emergency Department
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine expertise--Pediatric evaluation available 24 hours/day
- All children are treated in a separate, kid-friendly area.
- All pediatric patients receive care from team members who specialize in caring for children.
- Spanish interpreters on staff 24 hours/day, with ability to obtain other language interpreters either in hospital or by phone
- Stroke team immediately available to Emergency Department
- Specialty physicians on call to the E.D. (Cardiology, Surgery, Medicine, Orthopedics, Gynecology, Psychiatry, Plastics are some examples)
- X-ray, Lab, C.T. Scan and Ultrasound testing available 24 hours/day
- Trauma Care 24 hours/day -- Regional Trauma Center for Northern and mid California* Life Flight helicopter pad on roof
- University teaching hospital for Stanford University Medical School