| Hospitals Residency training in the hospital setting in Tulsa will be done at Hillcrest Medical Center and St. Francis Hospital (community hospitals in Tulsa, each with over 600 beds). Rotating through these two hospitals will expose an intern/resident to several different populations of patients as well as a variety of specialists and primary care physicians who will provide teaching and differing points of view on patient evaluations and treatments. |
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Hillcrest Medical Center Hillcrest is most widely recognized for its burn center that serves a multi-state area. Also, their cardiology, women’s, orthopedics and physical rehabilitation services, among others, receive some of the highest quality ratings by independent organizations. In addition, Hillcrest hospital delivers the most babies of any hospital in the state of Oklahoma. The Family Practice Teaching Service is located at Hillcrest Medical Center. Hillcrest has a full complement of medical and surgical specialists on staff who are always willing to consult on our patients and teach. Our service is usually busy as we take care of a variety of medical problems from Pediatrics to Geriatrics. Other rotations usually taken here include Emergency Room, Obstetrics, Internal Medicine and several subspecialty electives. Visit the Hillcrest Web Site at http://www.hillcrest.com/
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Oklahoma Heart Institute (OHI) is the region’s largest and most advanced hospital dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. |
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St. Francis Hospital New Children’s Hospital The new $72.6 million, 104-bed Children’s Hospital is scheduled for completion in January 2008 and will provide additional space for inpatient care, medical/surgical procedures, pediatric intensive care services as well as outpatient and inpatient infusion therapies for children. Planning for the Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis has been a collaborative effort that includes the project team, physicians, nurses, clinical staff, administrators and many other professionals who care for children. Parents and children have also teamed up to help shape the design of the innovative new hospital. |
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| “The new Children’s Hospital will focus our medical resources for children in one place and most importantly the design will allow us to incorporate the family in the care of their hospitalized child.” says William Banner, M.D., Medical Director of The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis. |
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Tulsa Life Flight Tulsa Life Flight is based within Saint Francis Hospital’s Trauma Emergency Usual rotations here are in Pediatrics and Emergency Room. Visit the St. Francis Web Site at http://www.saintfrancis.com/ |
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Center. The Hospital’s Trauma Emergency Center established the first emergency helicopter ambulance service in Oklahoma in 1979. Tulsa Life Flight, now a partnership between Saint Francis Hospital and St. John Medical Center, is one of the busiest air ambulance services in the nation. On average, it flies 130 medical missions and provides an average of 40 ground mobile intensive care unit transports per month. Tulsa Life Flight celebrated 38,000 accident free flights in June 2006. It works with volunteer fire services, first responders, local police, fire, sheriff, ambulance services, Oklahoma Highway Patrol and local hospitals in providing patient care. It is one of a few helicopter ambulance programs that carry blood products on all trauma flights, and it provides documentation of the trauma scenes utilizing digital cameras to assist the trauma surgeons in better understanding the significance of the accident scene. Tulsa Life Flight was honored with the “Advanced Service of the Year” award by the Oklahoma Emergency Medical Technician Association, which recognizes an advanced life support service for excellence. Tulsa Life Flight is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Services.
