The Emergency and Trauma Center is equipped with state-of-the-art technology and is open 24 hours a day to provide immediate treatment for medical emergencies. Designated as a Paramedic Receiving Center, the Emergency and Trauma Center is staffed with experienced emergency medicine physicians and specially trained emergency nurses.

To improve emergency department (ED) patient satisfaction and throughput (the time from ED arrival to inpatient admission or ED discharge), St. Francis Medical Center in Los Angeles implemented a bundle of interrelated strategies that included changes to the ED to facilitate faster service and the redesign of processes and policies to free up inpatient capacity. Since implementing the improvements, the ED has experienced a 5.5 percent increase in patient volume, a 1-hour decline in average time waiting for an inpatient bed, a 24 percent increase in patient satisfaction, and a 23 percent drop in the number of patients who left the ED without being seen.

The Trauma Center at St. Francis Medical Center rapidly approaches a decade long commitment to servicing our community's need for trauma care, originally having been designated as a Level II Trauma Center in January 8, 1996.

As one of the busiest trauma centers in Los Angeles County, we are proud of the quality of the medical care we provide. The most recent survey by Department of Health Services of the Trauma Center reaffirmed our Trauma and Emergency Medical Information System (TEMIS) data to be that of the 99th percentile, again confirming the commitment the highest level of care.

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To improve emergency department (ED) patient satisfaction and throughput (the time from ED arrival to inpatient admission or ED discharge), St. Francis Medical Center in Los Angeles implemented a bundle of interrelated strategies that included changes to the ED to facilitate faster service and the redesign of processes and policies to free up inpatient capacity. Since implementing the improvements, the ED has experienced a 5.5 percent increase in patient volume, a 1-hour decline in average time waiting for an inpatient bed, a 24 percent increase in patient satisfaction, and a 23 percent drop in the number of patients who left the ED without being seen.