Great Care in a Rural Community...
The Island Hospital Emergency Room is served by ambulances and helicopters 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A certified ER Physician is always on hand as is a staff of specially trained Emergency Nurses.
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Directions to Emergency Department!
To access the Island Hospital Emergency Department visitors should enter the hospital campus from 26th St., off Commercial Ave.
Directions:
Commercial Ave. to 26th St.
West on 26th St., onto the hospital campus, park in parking lot next to building
Emergency Department is accessed through entrance at right, north of traffic circle.
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Quality Care When You Need it Most...
Meeting the emergency care needs of our local community and island neighbors, Island Hospital brings the expertise of a Level III Emergency Department to our patients. The Level III distinction, attained only through a stringent survey process, assures excellence in trauma care, an exemplary staff and up-to-date medical equipment.
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Professionals Fully Committed to Emergency Medicine
Our ER professionals do all they can to be educated and trained in the latest emergency-medicine procedures.
- Our Emergency Department RNs maintain certification in Pediatric Emergency Nursing, Trauma Nursing, Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Adult Emergency Medicine.
- Emergency Department MDs are Board Certified.
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When minutes matter...
Our staff has vital experience to meet any emergency-care challenge. Through the latest in communications, transportation and technology, the Island Hospital ER is able to quickly treat patients despite the difficulties present in a rural island environment.
- Arriving Med Flights achieve a 10 – 15 minute response time from the islands.
- Departing flights transfer patients to facilities in Seattle, Bellingham and other locations as needed. Incidentally, we're told time and again what a fine job we do stabilizing and readying a person for transfer.
- Once stabilized, persons with head or spinal cord injuries, as well as heart surgery patients are transferred to specialized facilities.
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Receive State-of-the-Art Emergency Care
Despite Island Hospital being a smaller facility, our care is big... and, our ability to move to update technology, training and the use of the latest developments puts us at the top of the quality spectrum. Thrombolytics, powerful new drugs for heart attack and stroke, can be administered to diminish heart muscle or brain damage.
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Quality Proven by Nationwide Study
National Research Measures ER Services
Recently, a nationally recognized healthcare-research firm conducted telephone surveys to discover how patients feel about their emergency room treatment and care. More than 200 patients who had been seen in Island Hospital's ER (representing 25.8% of those seen during the month) were contacted. Their responses were evaluated with those of patients who had visited other ERs in our region and in the Western U.S.
Island Hospital Earns Top Spot
The results were outstanding! Island received the highest rankings in 25 out 26 areas, with scores generally in the high 90s (out of 100). Moreover, the Western U.S. database revealed that IH set the benchmark in nine of 12 key areas, and came within one percentage point of achieving another two.
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Emergency Dept. Contact Info
Island Hospital Emergency Dept.
1211 24th St.
Anacortes, WA 98221
(360) 299-1311 (in emergency call 911)
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