St. Luke's Emergency Department
06/09/08
“St. Luke's Hospital Emergency Department is a safe haven for patients and families in our community. Continuum’s Emergency Department's are the first place people consider when they need excellent emergent care, delivered in a timely manner, with respect and attention to the patient's individual needs.”
The emergency department at the St. Luke's Division sees over 115,000 patients each year including: 25,000 in its Fast Track, 26,000 in its pediatric emergency department and 2,000 in its psychiatric emergency department. St. Luke's Hospital is a Level I Trauma Center and about 500 multiple trauma patients, with both penetrating and blunt injuries, present annually to the emergency department. There are a high proportion of economically indigent and acutely ill patients. More than one-fifth of the patients seen in the adult emergency department are admitted to the hospital. The population it serves is drawn from the Upper West Side, Columbia University and the Harlem communities.
 This diverse patient population serves as a unique setting for numerous students in all stages of their education to learn how to provide excellent care. St. Luke's is a training ground for resident physicians in emergency medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry and all of the surgical sub-specialties. The emergency medicine residency produces exceptional graduates that go on to practice in community and academic settings around the world. Students of the Columbia University School of Medicine perform their third and fourth year clinical clerkships at St. Luke's Hospital and the emergency department welcomes visiting domestic and international students as well. Many college students also spend time at St. Luke's Hospital to get their first taste of the rewards and challenges of providing quality medical care. The emergency department offers fellowship training in Emergency Ultrasound, Global Health and Research. Collaboration between these fellowship programs and the research division have resulted in a multitude of original clinical research projects and numerous publications and presentations at national meeting annually.
 We provide compassionate, state of the art emergency care regardless of socioeconomic status, native language, literacy or disability. All emergency physicians are board certified in Emergency Medicine or Pediatric Emergency Medicine. The exceptionally high standards of the department as well as an extensive disaster preparedness program makes the St. Luke's Hospital Emergency Department prepared to treat every kind of emergency condition.
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