Important Facts About SH

The Health System is composed of three hospitals and a variety of related organizations and includes:

• 450 licensed beds.
• 22 bassinets. 2 Level II nursery beds, soon to be increased to 7
• 139 long-term care beds.

Hospital admissions of 13,000 patients each year including:

• 354 pediatric admissions. There are 3 full-time pediatric hospitalists.
• 1,200 deliveries, performed by family physicians, obstetrician-gynecologists, and nurse-midwives.

The Residency Program is SH's largest admitter of these patients.

Inpatient medical information is kept on electronic medical records that interface seamlessly with the Laboratory, Radiology, Respiratory care and Nurse charting all to a personalized user. In the near future, integration of order entry as well as labor and delivery monitoring will become standard.

Radiology services include:

• Interventional radiology.
• CT scanning.
• Positron emission tomography (PET).
• Bone densitometry.
• MRI (including open MRI).
• Ultrasound.
• Angiography.

Cardiology services include:

• Open heart surgery.
• Angioplasty.
• Cardiac cath lab.
• Echo (TEE and TTE).
• Stress (chemical or exercise) testing.
• Holter monitoring.

Gastroenterology Center includes:

• EGD.
• Colonscopy.
• ERCP.

Important Teaching Institution Facts:

• Visiting Professor Series includes nationally renowned experts who are invited weekly to discuss the latest advances in specialty and primary care medicine.
  
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• Several clinical clerkships are available to medical students.
  
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• We have students in nursing school, pharmacy, nuclear medicine, physician assistant, chaplaincy, medical technology and physical and occupational therapy on our three campuses.
  
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• Conference rooms have Internet and electronic medical record capability (Radiology and Laboratory) for morning report and daily teaching conferences.
  
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• Personal digital assistants (PDA) are provided at no cost to each resident.
  
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• Electronic medical records are used in the outpatient office, with input via handheld laptop computers; links to those medical records are accessible anywhere in the hospital, increasing paperless access and decreasing errors. Electronic medical records may also be accessed remotely form home.