Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
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Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital is a 278-bed acute care hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

 located in the city of Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont and 26th...

. "Memorial," as it is more commonly known as within Sonoma County, is part of the St. Joseph Health System and serves a population of approximately 500,000 people living in Sonoma County. Memorial Hospital is also the regional Level II trauma center for Sonoma County, Lake County
Lake County, California
Lake County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of California, north of the San Francisco Bay Area. It takes its name from Clear Lake, the dominant geographic feature in the county and the largest natural lake wholly within California...

, Mendocino County, Napa County, and the Marin County coastal region. On average Santa Rosa Memorial treats 1,450 patients annually who have suffered serious or life threatening injuries. In 2009 it had more than 31,000 outpatient emergency department visits and more than 7,200 admissions. Between 1998 and 2010 as a level II trauma center it had treated over 15,000 trauma cases.

Services

  • 24-hour Emergency Department
  • Medical and surgical services
  • Critical Care
  • Day Surgery Center
  • Family Birth Center
  • Transitional care
  • Full service laboratory
  • Respiratory Therapy
    Respiratory therapy
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  • Pulmonary Rehabilitation
  • Telemetry
    Telemetry
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  • Level II Trauma Center
  • Cardiovascular diagnostic and surgical services
  • Intensive Care Nursery (UCSF Intensive Care Nursery
    UCSF Medical Center
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     at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital)
  • Pediatrics
  • Oncology
    Oncology
    Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with cancer...

  • Physical and Occupational Therapy
  • Orthopedics
    Orthopedics
    Orthopedics is the study of the musculoskeletal system. The Greek word 'ortho' means straight or correct and 'pedics' comes from the Greek 'pais' meaning children. For many centuries, orthopedists have been involved in the treatment of crippled children...

  • Neurosurgery
    Neurosurgery
    Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spine, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.-In the United States:In...

  • Radiation therapy, including radiation seed implantation for prostate cancer
  • Full service imaging department (radiology, CT scans, ultrasound, MRI scans)
  • Diabetes and nutrition education
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