UAMS Medical Center

The UAMS Medical Center Emergency Department is a state of the art facility that handles more than 32,000 visits per year with a 19% admission rate. It houses 25 beds for major and minor trauma, major medicine, a decontamination suite, an orthopedic suite, and a minor surgery suite. The Emergency Department provides full-service on a 24-hour basis with in-house faculty in attendance at all times, and it is JCAHO level I accredited. The Department is capable of managing medical, trauma, neurological, surgical, and obstetrical emergencies. The telephone number for the Emergency Department is 501-686-6337. For Trauma and patient transfers, call 501-686-8888.

Arkansas Children's Hospital houses the busiest Emergency Department in the state with over 60,000 annual patient visits, and is the only Arkansas hospital devoted entirely to the care of children. It is staffed by Board-Certified pediatricians on a 24 hour basis. It is the primary site for the pediatric, PICU and emergency transport rotations in the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. The second and third year residents have continuous pediatric emergency medicine experience in the ACH ER throughout their remaining stay in the program. As interns the residents rotate on the Pediatric wards at ACH.  As second years they rotate through the PICU at ACH.  Third year residents will also do a transport rotation with Angel Flight, the pediatric transport service which serves Arkansas and surrounding areas.