Our specialty areas give you diverse opportunities to practice and enhance your skills. A sampling of what we offer our community follows:
- St. Joseph's Emergency Department: We are a 23 bed, fast paced Emergency Department who prides ourselves with providing excellent nursing care to patients across the life-span! We care for patients suffering from the simple common cold, to those suffering from multi-system trauma. We are the busiest ED in the area with over 41,000 patient visits per year. We are known for our excellence in cardiac care and have admitted patients to the cath lab for definitive treatment within 15 minutes of arrival! Our ED is innovative in patient flow design and is always looking for ways to improve the patient experience. For trauma situations, you'll work with other facilities in the area to handle special needs. We work collaboratively to provide our patients with excellence in both medical and nursing care!
- St. Joseph's Heart Center: Here our highly trained physicians, nurses and multi-disciplinary support staff provide a wide variety of services and participate in pioneering studies to advance the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. You'll join a team that has been honored with local and national awards, including Top 100 Interventional Cardiology 1999, from HCIA; Consumer's Choice, Most Preferred Hospital, Heart Care Services 1999, from our local constituency through the National Research Corporation; and Heart Hall of Fame Award 1999, from the American Heart Association.
- St. Joseph's Regional Cancer Center: This center offers the most advanced cancer treatments available today while also providing support and education to patients and their families. Treatments are delivered by nationally certified radiation therapists under the direction of an excellent medical staff in a 13,000-square-foot facility that houses two linear accelerators and the area's only FDA-approved 3-dimensional treatment planning system.
- The Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Unit: Our specially trained teams offer HBO therapy 24-hours a day to enhance healing and fight infections.
