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UMC is the only public, non-profit hospital in Clark County and operates the state’s only Burn Care Center and Level I Trauma Center as well as several Care Centers. UMC is affiliated with the University of Nevada School of Medicine and serves as the state's major clinical campus. Through its affiliation with the School of Medicine, residency programs in internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, family practice, general surgery and pediatrics are offered at UMC. Since 1931, UMC has been providing comprehensive medical care to all in its role as the community’s safety net provider.

UMC is the only public, non-profit hospital in Clark County and is home to the following:

• Nevada's only Level One Trauma Center
%bull; Nevada's only Pediatric Trauma Center
• Nevada's only Burn Care Center
• 105,000 visits/year including 32,000 pediatric visits and 8300 trauma visits annually
• 28% admission rate 
• 12% Critical Care admissions
• 512 bed hospital, 56 bed Adult ED, 11 bed Trauma Center, 19 bed Pediatric ED

UMC also has its own Chest Pain Center. The UMC Chest Pain Center, the first full-scale chest pain evaluation center in Nevada, was established in 1996.  After initial evaluation and management in the Emergency Department, patients at low to intermediate risk of acute coronary syndrome are admitted to a discrete 6-bed, 1,440 square-foot unit.  The Chest Pain Center is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by 2 specialized RNs trained in critical care.  All 6 beds are dedicated to patients presenting with acute chest pain, and are equipped with continuous 12-lead ST-segment monitoring systems.  After 6 hours of normal serial cardiac biomarkers, patients undergo non-invasive cardiac stress testing via exercise treadmill, adenosine-Cardiolite, or dobutamine-Cardiolite evaluation.  Cardiac stress studies are performed daily from 9am to 10pm, including weekends.  The Chest Pain Center’s systematic approach to patient evaluation and accelerated diagnostic protocol allows for thorough, yet cost-effective and rapid assessment, often within 9 hours of patient arrival. 

Ross P. Berkeley, MD, Director of the UMC Chest Pain Center, and Joy Guiding, RN, BS, MBA, Director of UMC Cardiovascular Services, have worked collaboratively with members of the Emergency Department, Cardiology Department, and Cardiac Catheterization Lab to refine and streamline the protocol for assessment of patients experiencing acute chest pain.  Dr. Berkeley also developed and continues to coordinate the UMC Cardiac Activation System for Emergency Department management of patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and new left bundle branch (LBBB), which facilitates rapid patient stabilization and transfer to the Cardiac Catheterization Lab for emergent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

  

 

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