Emergency Dept./Trauma Center at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Emergency Dept services include:
Level 1 Trauma Center
Express Care Clinic
Pediatric Trauma Care
Burn Center
Spinal Cord Injury Center
Sexual Assault Response Team
Rapid Medical Evaluation Unit

The Emergency Department at SCVMC is the busiest in Santa Clara County, treating 250 patients a day or 90,000 patients every year. The department consists of physicians with specialized training in emergency medicine, emergency medical resident, physician assistants, and over 90 nurses. Department staff also educates residents from other specialties and medical students from a number of medical schools, including Stanford.

Our professional staff provides this care to patients with a wide-range of emergency medical problems – adult medical, pediatric, traumatic a, and psychiatric conditions -- 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The nurses of the Emergency Department are Advanced Cardiac Life (ACLS) and Trauma Nurse certified and many are also certified Emergency Room Nurses (CEN). All physicians on staff are either Board Certified or Board Prepared in Emergency Medicine.