Best Emergency Room Oakland Near Me

4worldlovers: Diversity, community, quality, compassion, longevity and dynamism are the words that describe the essence of the training program at Highland Emergency. In 1980, Bob Dailey M.D., our first department chair and one of the true fathers of Emergency Medicine, established an EM residency at Highland Hospital. Highland Emergency is one of the oldest Emergency Medicine residencies in the country.

It began as a two-year program, (PGY 2-3) with six housestaff per year, and in 1988, was among the first residencies to transition to a four-year training program. As the residency grew and matured, private and university experience was added to the primarily county-based program. Today we match between 10-12 residents per year, forming a tight knit and diverse community.

Highland Hospital opened its doors in 1927 with the mission to improve the health of all county residents regardless of ability to pay. Located on a hilly 16 acre site, 3 miles south of downtown Oakland, the original hospital, with its Spanish baroque architecture, promised “progressive medical care in comfortable surroundings.”

Today, Alameda Health System (formerly Alameda County Medical Center) consists of three inpatient facilities; Highland, Alameda, and San Leandro hospitals, a 159 bed Fairmont Rehabilitation Hospital, and the 80 bed John George Psychiatric Pavilion. Alameda Health System is home to residencies in Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery and Internal Medicine. It is the only level 1 trauma center for the East Bay and is the county EMS base station.

For it’s first 50 years of existence the Emergency Department at Highland consisted of one very long hallway. Its 6,000 square feet of space were usually jammed with patients. In 2004 we opened our 26,000 square foot modern ED in the new and seismically-safe Koret Building, equipped with the latest technology such as a dedicated light speed multi slice CT scanner and integrated informatics system.

This beautiful new space ensures that we will be prepared to serve our community and its needs for years to come. In 2013, the medical center was re-organized to meet the emerging demands of the Affordable Care Act, and the new name Alameda Health System was adopted. In 2015, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient hospital was opened.

Highland Emergency is composed 46 EM residents, 16 full time faculty and 3 administrative assistants. Our mothership is Alameda Health System – Highland Hospital (formerly Alameda County Medical Center), in inner-city Oakland. While this website provides details about the many facets of our department, there are 3 that we would like to highlight here: location, clinical innovation, and community.

Our program is located in the heart of the Bay Area, which allows our residents to live in Oakland, Berkeley, or San Francisco and enjoy all the fruits of this wonderful region of the country. We recreate on a daily basis from the Pacific Coast (Santa Cruz to Point Reyes) to the Sierra Nevadas (Tahoe to Yosemite).

4worldlovers: When your child is facing a medical emergency, there's no substitute for a specialty children’s hospital. Young patients require distinct tests and equipment for their small bodies. Kids are at greater risk for serious breathing problems, less tolerant of blood loss, and more vulnerable to head injury than adults are – and the younger the child, the smaller the margin for error.

That's where UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals makes all the difference. The pediatric Emergency Departments at our San Francisco and Oakland locations are focused exclusively on kids, with a staff of doctors and nurses trained in pediatric emergency medicine who are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our patients also have access to a full-service suite of care with more than 150 top-ranked pediatric specialists. Critical medical and surgical divisions are on call at all times for the more intensive care.

Our Oakland ED is certified as a level 1 trauma center by the American College of Surgeons and is the only state-designated Pediatric Critical Care Center in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. This distinction marks us as a center of excellence in all areas of pediatric care, from emergency care and intensive care through rehabilitation services.

4worldlovers: Welcome to Alameda Health System. Since 1864, we have served the East Bay’s health care needs. We continue to adapt and transform, caring for a growing and diverse community.

We are committed to excellence in everything we do, with patient and family centered health care at the core.

As a longtime pillar in our communities, we lead in extending care, wellness, and prevention to all. We are a haven for the most vulnerable among us; an advocate for equitable, compassionate and culturally sensitive care regardless of social and financial barriers. We are in the vanguard of medical excellence, with a teaching hospital that draws the nation’s best medical students.

Our mission – Caring, Healing, Teaching, Serving All – concisely conveys our vital role, and our heartfelt responsibility to promote wellness, eliminate disparities and optimize the health of our communities.

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