 University
Of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
The University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
and UW Children's Hospital are within the Clinical Science Center
(CSC), a 1.5-million-square-foot facility on the west end of the
UW-Madison campus. The CSC encompasses both hospitals, the School
of Nursing, the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center, and clinical programs
of the UW Medical School. The building represents a center for progressive
health care, education, and research.
UW Hospital is a regional tertiary care facility
with nearly 500 inpatient beds, six intensive care units, 31 operating
rooms, a twelve bed regional Burn Unit, and the 24 bed Trauma and
Life Support Center. The hospital provides more than 165,000 patient
care days each year. Over 20,000 anesthetic procedures are performed
annually, including 10,000 outpatient and 4000 emergency procedures.
Outpatient care is provided in over 80 clinics
in the CSC and surrounding area. Both primary and specialty care
are provided in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology,
psychiatry, neurology, ophthalmology, oncology, and rehabilitation
medicine. This actively expanding network of clinics handles nearly
600,000 outpatient visits each year.
UW Hospitals and Clinics and UW Children's Hospital
offer a wide array of specialized, high quality patient care services.
The hospitals have an enviable record of expanding and changing
to meet patientsı needs. At a time when most university hospitals
are struggling, the UW continues to grow, achieving national recognition
as a center of excellence. As a resident in the Department of Anesthesiology
you will be part of a progressive organization that will expose
you to a medically diverse patient population and high quality,
innovative care.
Outpatient Surgery Center
UW Hospitalıs Outpatient Surgery Center serves nearly
10,000 patients a year. Facilities include nine operating rooms
equipped for general anesthesia, a dedicated Post-Anesthesia Recovery
Unit, thirty pre- and postoperative care cubicles, and the Anesthesia
Preoperative Clinic. The OSC is under the medical direction of a
staff anesthesiologist who oversees scheduling and is actively involved
in preoperative consultation and assessment. The director is also
active within the hospital with input into long range planning,
budgetary development, pharmacy and therapeutics and other multidisciplinary
issues. Residents are exposed to a full range of often complicated
patients who receive care in this busy outpatient setting.
Critical Care Services
The hospitals' critical care services reflect the
institutionıs dedication to quality, state-of-the art care. The
Trauma and Life Support Center, co-directed by a member of the Department
of Anesthesiology, provides multi-disciplinary care to complex medical,
surgical, neurosurgical, transplant and trauma patients from throughout
the region. Anesthesiology residents rotate as part of a team consisting
of a critical care attending, a pulmonary or anesthesia critical
care fellow, and surgery and medicine residents. The newly remodeled
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, a major regional referral center,
provides care to a broad range of medical and surgical patients.
The Burn Unit, one of only two in Wisconsin, serves patients from
Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota.
UW Hospital is a Level 1 Trauma Center providing
comprehensive care to critically ill medical and surgical patients
24 hours a day. The Med Flight fleet of critical care helicopters
provide skilled emergency care and transport to critically ill and
injured patients within a 225 mile radius of Madison.
Health Sciences Learning Center
The University of Wisconsin Medical Schools' long
awaited renovation has become reality with the recent completion
of the Health Sciences Learning Center. This 250,000 square foot
multidisciplinary facility is located adjacent to the Clinical Sciences
Center and is the educational center for all health sciences students
at the University of Wisconsin-medical, nursing, pharmacy, physical
therapy, and physician assistant students. The HSLC, one of the
most sophisticated instructional facilities in the nation, boasts
state-of-the-art lecture centers, clinical assessment center, superior
technology, centralized library, a cafe and medical book and supply
store.
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