Saint Charles Hospital

The Emergency Department at St. Charles Hospital provides care to individuals with a wide array of medical issues including patients with critical or complex conditions such as heart attack and stroke to simpler yet urgent problems such as cuts and broken bones. Care is provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, serving more than 25,000 patients each year. Our medical team includes board-certified emergency medicine physicians as well as nurse practitioners and nurses specially trained in emergency and critical care. Medical specialists are called upon as needed and include obstetrics, neurology, orthopedics, pediatrics and surgery.

All emergency physicians at St. Charles Hospital are board-certified in emergency medicine.

Services:
Rapid registration and triage of patients, minimizing wait times
Eighteen beds, six private treatment rooms and one specialized orthopedic treatment room
Negative pressure room for patients with communicable illnesses
Bedside ultrasound, when appropriate, to speed evaluation and diagnosis
State-of-the-art digitized radiography system
A separate Pediatric Emergency Treatment Area for children with emergent medical issues three beds and isolette for newborns

To contact St. Charles Hospital's Emergency Department, please call (631) 474-6156.

The New York State Department of Health has designated St. Charles Hospital a
Primary Stroke Center

When it comes to stroke, time is of the essence. St. Charles Hospital's record of diagnosing and treating stroke patients is outstanding.

At St. Charles Hospital a specialty trained stroke team springs into action when an individual arrives in the emergency department with symptons of stroke. A neurologist immediately evaluates the patient, necessary blood tests and CT scans are performed and, if within the appropriate time frame, the patient is treated with thromolytic therapy - a medication known as a "clot buster" since it breaks up or dissolves blood clots.

St. Charles Hospital's stroke experts provide free community education on the signs and symptoms of stroke as well as risk factors. For more information on a community lecture, please call (631) 474-6445.