Methodist Hospital

• 810 current bed capacity
• 132 adult and pediatric critical care beds
• Maintains a Fully Staffed (24-7) eICU Environment
• Home of the current Society of Critical Care Medicine President
• Two Beacon Award Citations for Critical Care Excellence
• Largest Neurocritical Care Unit in the Country
• Largest Number of Adult Critical Care Beds of any Single Hospital in the Country
• Staffed by Nationally Recognized Experts in the Fields of Trauma, Neurosurgery, and Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Nationally Ranked in the Areas of Cardiovascular Surgical and Neuroscience Care.
• Ranked Amongst the Top 50 US Hospitals by US News and World Reports in the Delivery of Neuroscience, Pulmonary, Cardiac, and Cardiovascular Surgical Patient Care.

Emergency Medicine & Trauma Center (EMTC)

The EMTC serves as a tertiary care emergency referral center for most of central Indiana (population base > 1.5 million) and provides primary emergency care for a large local referral area. The new facility opened in May of 1997 and was rennovated in 2002. Expansions followed on 2005 (6 more critical care beds) and 2009 (new IDTU, new pediatric focus in the "Delta 3" area) . Future plans include the addition of multiple general exam beds. The current department consists of:

• 19 Critical Care beds
• 8 Fast Track beds
• 19 Intensive Diagnostic and Treatment Unit beds
• 2 HEENT Rooms
• 1 Center of Hope Sexual Assault exam room
• 4 Orthopedic/Minor Trauma beds
• 20 General examination beds

The EMTC has its own fully dedicated radiology department including digitized imaging and an in-department CT scanner available 24 hours a day. The Indiana Poison Center and administrative offices are located in suites immediately adjacent to the patient care area.

Charles Shufflebarger, M.D., FACEP is the EMTC Medical Director.

Christopher Strachan, MD is the Associate Medical Director and Director of Operations

Kathy Hendershot, RN MSN is the Director of Clinical Operations

Angie Demott is the administrative secretary for the EMTC.

Patient Care Statistics: Year End 2009

• Patient Census – 103,574
• Admissions - 19,231
• Critical Care Admissions – 3,561
• IDTU (ED Observation) Admissions – 2,818
• Fast track 17,973
• Pediatric patients (0–18yrs.) 21,278

• 5,319 with injuries
• 936 admitted, 289 to PICU

• Injuries – 25, 893
• Trauma 1: 1327
• • 3,442 injuries admitted
  • 924 to ICU
• Life Line flights –1404

Trauma

Methodist is an American College of Surgeons Level I designated trauma center with special Pediatric Commitment. Of our 90+ thousand patients, approximately 25,000 present with an injury. Of these, 3000 require hospital admission. We serve as the trauma receiving facility for 50% of the Level I injuries within Indianapolis, and in addition serve as a major referral center from ED's around the state. Relationships between our trauma surgeons and emergency physicians are extremely cordial. We work together as a team on all patients. The EM physicians perform all airway control. Invasive procedures are equitably delegated amongst all physicians and students. Approximately 85% of our trauma are blunt in etiology. (Photo: John Hoyle, MD).

Intensive Care Units

• 31 Adult Critical Care Unit beds
• 26 Neurological Critical Care Unit beds
• 20 Cardiac Medical Critical Care Unit beds
• 30 cardiovascular surgery intensive care beds
• 14 Pediatric Intensive Care Unit beds
• 32 Neonatal Intensive care beds/special care nursery beds
• 24 progressive care beds
• 36 additional critical care “swing beds” (convertable from Critical to Non-Critical Telemetry)

Staffing

RN's, EMT-P's and Orthopedic Techs staff the EMTC. The Fast Track is staffed by Nurse Practitioners. Social workers are immediately available 24 hours per day, and chaplaincy and on-call social work is available around the clock. Faculty coverage of the EMTC follows a circadian schedule that we have used since the mid 1980's. There is at least double coverage with faculty from 24 hours a day. During the busiest 16 hours of the day (0900 until 0200) there are 3-4 faculty working and teaching in the EMTC. From the hours of 1000 to 1900 a 3rd year resident assists with staffing and teaching of 1st year residents and Students

During the mid-1990's, Wishard Hospital was selected for three consecutive years as one of the Top 100 Performing Hospitals in the nation, and was the only hospital in Indiana to have received this designation three years in a row. That study ranked hospitals on eight measures which indicate high value to consumers through effective use of resources, efficient provision of care and high-quality outcomes. The addition of Wishard as a training site for our program in 2001 has proven to be most enriching.

Wishard Emergency Department

ED annual census for 2006: 108,863

• Admissions: 11,786
  • Critical care admissions: 4,409 (58% from ED)
  • Burn Unit Admissions: 378
  • Pediatric patients in ED: 5,497
  • Patients seen in the Pediatric Urgent Care: 34,545
  • Patients seen in the Womens’ Visit Center: 17,953

• Total Rooms: 79
• Urgent Visit Center: 11
• Holding Room (prisoners): 13 (4 monitored)
• General exam rooms: 17
• Ortho rooms: 1
• Ambulance Triage (“AT”): 20
• Observation Area (monitored): 14
• Shock Rooms: 4    

Wishard Hospital Statistics

• ACS Level 1 Trauma Center, Regional Burn Center
• Inpatient Beds: (licensed) 473 and (staffed) 26
  • Adult ICU: 12
  • Surgery/Trauma ICU: 8
  • Burn Unit: 8
  • Progressive ICU (step down): 29
  • Special Care Nursery: 16
• 22,293 annual admissions (5,200 ICU admissions)
• Voted 3 years "Top 100 Acute Care Hospitals" by Row Mercer/HCIA Group
• Co-sponsors Indianapolis EMS System
• Sponsors largest hospital based EMT-P's system in the nation
• Currently our EM residents do orthopedics,  labor triage and delivery, and an oral surgery rotation as their off service rotations here.  

Resident/Faculty Offices

• 14 private offices
• 2 large shared faculty space (2 computer terminals per space)
• 2 fellow offices
• Residency office space and lockers
• Shower facilities
• Administrative conference room and break area

The Riley ED admits the greatest percentage of its patients to the hospital as compared to any other ED in the state of Indiana.  It is the only Pediatric Level One Trauma Center (American College of Surgeons) and the only Pediatric Burn Center in the state.  Unique populations include Complex Congenital Heart Disease, Hematology and Oncology, Sexual (Pediatric Center of Hope) and domestic violence, and the medically/surgically complex patients.

• Inpatient Beds 250
• PICU 32 
• Burn Unit 6
• Heart Center (Cardiac & Other Monitored Pts) 29 
• NICU 55 
• Hematology and Oncology 20
• ED Total Rooms  20  
  • All Monitored Rooms
  • General exam rooms  16  
  • Shock Rooms 4  
  • Only Pediatric Level One Trauma Center in Indiana

Riley ED Patient Care Statistics: Year End 2008

• ED annual census 2009 26,000
• 28% Admission Rate. (Amongst the highest percentage in the nation for a Children’s Hospital)
• 10% of Admissions are to the critical care units

Robert Collins MD is the Medical Director

Maureen Hancock RN is the Clinical Director 

Kathy McGregor RN is the Nursing Manager

Amber Jordan is the Administrative Secretary 

Matt Howard RN is the Trauma Coordinator