Chkd Emergency Department

Ensure all building occupants are aware of situation.

Chkd emergency department.

Our comprehensive team of pediatric emergency medicine specialists surgeons nurses therapists and other clinicians takes care of trauma patients from the. Chkd is a 206 bed hospital and serves the medical and surgical needs of children throughout the greater hampton. Chkd s emergency center is home to the first and only level 1 pediatric trauma center in hampton roads offering the highest level of care available to trauma patients under the age of 15. Poison control 800 222 1222.

In case of an emergency please go to chkd s emergency department. Elective rotations are available as well. If life threatening call 911 then department leadership to report event. The hospital treats infants children teens and young adults aged 0 21 and even some adults who require pediatric care.

Ensure safety of building occupants. And remember if your child s illness or injury is life threatening call 911. Fellows spend much of their training at chkd caring for patients in the emergency department and rotating with chkd s sports medicine orthopedics anesthesia transport ultrasound deep sedation and trauma teams. Initial alert and information sharing.

Emergency call 911. Chkd s emergency department 30 beds cares for over 50 000 patients each year and is growing rapidly. Sentara norfolk general hospital. Chkd is the leading children s hospital in southeastern virginia and the only free standing children s hospital in the state.

In this newly created position advanced practice providers will provide emergency care in the main treatment area of the emergency department at night 11pm 7am alongside pediatric emergency medicine physicians. This may be accomplished by all call phone function. Gabriel is a norfolk native norfolk public schools graduate and chkd pediatrician who has spent her life in service to children and their families as both an educator and a physician in the chkd emergency department and tidewater children s associates.