Address:
4th Floor, (Street Level) Koret Critical Care and Clinical Center
Highland Hospital Campus
1411 East 31st Street at Stuart St., Oakland CA. 94602
[map and directions]
Main Hospital Number: (510 437-4800
Emergency Registration: (24 hours): (510) 437-4865
Alameda County Medical Center's Highland Hospital operates the county's busiest Emergency Department, with some 75,000 patient visits annually. The county's population of 1.4 million counts on Highland for life-threatening conditions from heart attacks to car accidents as well as disasters like the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
Open 365 days a year, 24-hours a day, all patients, pediatric through geriatric, are assessed and triaged by a Registered Nurse and treated by a multidisciplinary team of specially trained personnel.
Emergency care services provided include:
- Stabilization of life threatening conditions.
- Life saving procedures.
- Immediate treatment of medical and surgical emergencies.
- Emergency treatment for minor injury or illness.
- Emergency care for minor or major trauma victims.
Trauma Service
Highland is the designated Trauma Center for adults in northern Alameda County and the Emergency Department is the point of entry for the Trauma Service. "Trauma" is any major physical injury that could result in loss of life, limb or body function. Highland's trauma team responds to some 2,400 trauma events yearly. All injured patients meeting trauma patient criteria are evaluated, resuscitated, and receive definitive care from an outstanding team of surgeons, Emergency physicians, nurses, and other ancillary personnel.
Facility
In 2004 the Emergency Department and Trauma Service relocated to spacious and up-to-date new quarters in the Koret Foundation Critical Care and Clinical Center. The new ED provides twice as many beds, three times the floor space, superior equipment and enhanced patient privacy. Features include:
- 50 beds with designated spaces for critical care, observation, orthopedic, and sub-acute care
- Trauma Resuscitation Bays with Traumex overhead X-Ray
- New CT Scanner dedicated to Trauma and Emergency Patients for rapid response
- ENT Room
- Isolation rooms, including 1 waiting/exam room
- 1 Pediatric room plus play area
- 3 OB/Gyn rooms
- Sexual Assault Treatment Center
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