Washington Regional Medical Center

General inpatient services: washington regional medical center is committed to providing a wide range of services to meet the general healthcare needs of its service population. general inpatient services in 2016 included internal medicine, geriatric health, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, intensive care, coronary intensive care, oncology, and orthopedics. also included in general inpatient services are nursing services, nursing education, admissions services, medical records, quality assurance, case coordination, and central scheduling. in 2016 washington regional opened a five-story, 130,000-square-foot women and infants center. in addition to private rooms for gynecology patients and pediatrics patients, the women and infants center also offers 13 triage stations, 17 labor & delivery rooms, four operating rooms, 28 private mother-baby rooms, a 34-bed neonatal intensive care unit and a dedicated pharmacy. the nicu includes private patient rooms that let parents stay with their baby; some of these rooms are specially equipped for twins and multiples. the nicu floor also features the angel eye camera system as well as a milk lab staffed by technologists specially trained in infant nutrition. a ronald mcdonald house on the top floor of the women and infants center provides a special place for families to find the support and comfort they need, just steps away from their hospitalized child or newborn. washington regionals second helipad is located on the center rooftop, providing efficient access for medical helicopters. washington regional continued to provide "intensivists" - physicians who specialize in caring for critically ill patients in the medical center's critical care unit. staffed by physicians from our pulmonology team, these highly trained and experienced medical specialists coordinated the care provided by nurses, respiratory therapists and others as needed by the patient. they provided continuous clinical assessment and addressed even the most subtle changes in clinical conditions. at washington regional, hospitalists, physicians who specialize in caring for hospitalized patients, were on site to provide ongoing and immediate care. in 2016 washington regional provided 18 hospitalists to our community. they worked as partners with our physicians and nursing staff to provide the highest standard of care during a patient's hospital stay. they were able to modify treatment or follow up on a test result on the spot, instead of waiting until the next day. this hands-on approach has been shown to not only help prevent medical complications, but also reduce hospital stays and lower costs. washington regional medical center maintained its advanced certification for primary stroke centers. the centers for disease control and prevention reports a higher incidence of survival and recovery for stroke patients receiving care at primary stroke centers compared to those treated in hospitals without this type of specialized care. and, as part of its participation in a nationwide clinical trial, in 2016 washington regional became the first in northwest arkansas to implant the barostim neo device in a patient with heart failure. the study is designed to determine whether the device can help patients live longer, reduce hospital stays, and improve quality of life. overall, washington regional had 15,000 acute admissions in 2016 and provided 60,653 days of inpatient acute care. (this included 11,231 intensive care days and cardiac critical care days.) the average length of an inpatient hospital stay in 2016 was 4.04 days. there were 1,512 babies born at washington regional in 2016, and 4,081 days of nursery care provided.

Emergency services: washington regional's emergency physicians and staff, backed by the resources of more than 458 physicians on the medical staff, provided medical services to 56,839 patients in 2016. washington regionals emergency department provided services regardless o