Emergency Medicine - Factsheet

Our Emergency Medicine Residency Program, which began in 1998, is a three-year program designed to produce board-certified emergency medicine physicians who are comfortable handling any patient situation presenting to an emergency department. The faculty consists of 36 full-time and 2 part-time physicians. All of these are Emergency Medicine residency trained, and all are Emergency Board certified/eligible. Residents receive training at Covenant Health Care System’s new state-of-the-art Emergency Department and Saint Mary’s of Michigan Hospital.

	Covenant HealthCare	St. Mary's Hospital
Number of beds in hospital	646	268
Number of beds in ED	47	16
Number of patient visits per year	86,000	24,000
Pediatric visits	20%	4%
Admission rate (% of total visits)	26%	37%
ICU/OR admission rate (% of total admissions)	17%	12%
Number of months (ED/total at institution)	14.5/25.75	3.5/6
Distance from primary site	On site	2 miles

Number of Residents per year:  10

Current Enrollment