Leamington
Leamington hospital has 88 acute care beds. There is a 6 bed
ICU/CCU and additional 10 bed telemetry floor. Local consultant
services include internal medicine, general surgery / orthopedics,
anesthesia, obstetrics, radiology, hospitalist service, family medicine
and ambulatory psychiatry.
The radiology department offers services in ultrasound, CT
scan, plain digital radiography, fluoroscopy and nuclear medicine. All
radiology studies are stored on a PACS system which communicates to
other facilities in the LHIN.
The laboratory services are full with a few investigations
being sent to Windsor for non-urgent studies. Additionally the
emergency department has point of care testing for CBC, lytes, BUN, CR,
glucose, Urine pregnancy tests, Urinalysis, cardiac markers and
arterial blood gases.
The emergency department call roster is supplemented with
Windsor referral to the Hotel Dieu Grace and Windsor Regional
Hospitals. These include consultant services in urology, plastics
surgery, orthopedics, trauma team, pediatrics, nephrology, inpatient
psychiatry, neurology and neurosurgery. The traveling time between
Leamington and Windsor hospitals is approximately 40 minutes by car and
25 minutes by EMS.
The emergency department was renovated in 2002 and includes 10
private exam rooms (8 with cardiac monitors), a 2 bed
resuscitation/trauma bay and 5 bed observation area/fast track.
Additionally there is an ambulatory care clinic adjacent to the
emergency department which the department overflows to during surge
periods.
Presently the emergency department is on a 24 hour AFA model
with 2nd on call MD back up coverage for surge capacity. The emergency
department also is staffed by 2 nurse practitioners. Our volume is
approximately 27,000 visits per annum with a mixture of 1% CTAS 1, 4%
CTAS 2, 35% CTAS 3, 40% CTAS 4, 20% CTAS 5. We have full local ER
physician staffing - combined of 5 full time and 7 part time emergency
physicians. 4 of the part time physicians work 4 to 6 shifts per month
in the emergency department and part time as part of the Leamington
Family Health Team. One of the part time emergency physicians has
additional training with the CCFP anesthesia program. In the past year
the emergency department purchased a turbomax next generation sonosite
ultrasound with probes for ultrasound guided central line placement /
foreign body identification as well as the probe for FAST exams and
pelvic obstetrical exams.
Accomodations will be available. The hospital owns 3 houses
where visiting students / physicians have stayed. However, at present
these are being rented to new attending physicians who have moved to
Leamington. If Leamington becomes a site for part of the CCFP(EM)
residency program I will request that one these houses is kept
available for visiting residents. Additionally, the hospital
administration has also offered to pay for accommodations at the Pelee
Island Inn (located in Leamington) and at a nice local bed &
breakfast.
I have discussed with Anesthesia and general surgery who have
both agreed to assist in training have CCFP(EM) residents. Also have
had preliminary discussions with the Henry Ford hospital system in
Detroit to allow residents to work a week while on rotation in
Leamington with there Trauma service which sees up to 4 gunshot
wounds/stabbings per day and multiple blunt trauma patients per day.
Contact Information
Donald Levy, BSc, MD, CCFP(EM)
Medical Director, Leamington District Memorial Hospital
ACEP / Emergency Medicine Foundation Teaching Fellow
Adjunct Professor, University of Western Ontario, SWOMEN - Windsor Site
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