Washington Regional Medical Center
The primary clinical site for this residency is Washington Regional Medical Center. Educational activities or simulation exercises may, on rare occasions, take place at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus, about two miles from Washington Regional.
Washington Regional is the only community-owned, locally governed, non-profit health care system located in northwest Arkansas, employing over 3,400 team members and serving the region with a 425-bed medical center, over 40 clinic locations and five Centers of Excellence – the Washington Regional J.B. Hunt Transport Services Neuroscience Institute; Washington Regional Walker Heart Institute; Washington Regional Women and Infants Center; Washington Regional Total Joint Center; and Washington Regional Pat Walker Center for Seniors.
Washington Regional is the region’s only Level II trauma center, the only hospital in the state to hold Joint Commission certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, the only hospital in northwest Arkansas to earn Advanced Certification in Spine Surgery from Joint Commission and to hold Advanced Certification for Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement. Additionally, Washington Regional was the first hospital in Arkansas and is one of only two in the state to be named an Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Washington Regional has been named the #1 hospital in Arkansas by U.S. News and World Report for six consecutive years, earning designation as high performing in 13 areas of care — more than any other hospital in the state.
The state-of-the-art Emergency Department has 40 beds, including three trauma bays and an area for non-acute cases, and sees more than 57,000 patient visits per year. Roughly 26% of ED visits lead to an admission, with 4.7% of all visits resulting in an admission to a critical care unit. Residents receive a broad clinical experience with a diverse patient population as they care for children and adults of all cultures in the emergency department and inpatient rotations. Washington Regional provides care in all specialty areas and both required and elective clinical experiences are completed at this site in multiple clinical disciplines.
Washington Regional’s leadership is strongly committed to graduate medical education. In 2022, the hospital invested in a 6,400 square foot GME Suite. The space contains classrooms, a resident lounge, team rooms, lockers, program offices, and resident-only call rooms. The GME Suite is regularly stocked with food and drinks, and hot meals are provided free of charge during noon conferences/didactic days.
Washington Regional is committed to improving the health of people in communities it serves through compassionate, high-quality care, prevention, and wellness education. Visit wregional.com for more information.
Washington Regional is committed to improving the health of people in communities it serves through compassionate, high-quality care, prevention, and wellness education. Visit wregional.com for more information.
Pictures of the Washington Regional GME Space
Arkansas Children’s Northwest Hospital
Arkansas Children’s Northwest
Arkansas Children’s Northwest (ACNW) is the only children’s hospital in Northwest Arkansas and is part of the larger Arkansas Children’s Hospital system. ACNW is a Level 4 Trauma Center that treats roughly 45,000 children annually in the emergency department. The ED has 24 private exam rooms and two trauma/resuscitation bays. In addition to ED care, ACNW provides inpatient and outpatient primary and specialty pediatric care, surgery, imaging services, lab, and physical, occupational, and speech therapy services.
Our residents have three 4-week rotations at ACNW in the ED, working under the supervision of faculty board certified in pediatric emergency medicine. We are the only residency program regularly rotating in the ED. Residents are exposed to a broad spectrum of clinical presentations of the acutely ill or injured child, from routine urgent care pediatrics to the acute resuscitation of life-threatening emergencies that require intensive care, along with the initial assessment and plan for standard general pediatric cases that are admitted to the hospital.
ACNW is located six miles from Washington Regional, a drive that normally takes about 10-15 minutes. While on rotation here, residents have protected time for didactics and can attend in person or participate remotely.
Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) houses the busiest emergency department in the state with almost 62,000 annual patient visits, and is part of the only Arkansas hospital system devoted entirely to the care of children. It is staffed by Board-Certified pediatricians on a 24-hour basis. ACH is the primary site for the pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric intensive care, pediatric anesthesia, and pediatric night float experience rotations, including didactics, with residents from UAMS’s Little Rock-based Emergency Medicine residency program. Residents in our program spend one 4-week rotation here in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
While on this rotation, transportation costs and lodging are provided by the residency program.
Central EMS
Central EMS provides ambulance service to 920 square miles of Washington County, serving over 200,000 people. In 2019, Central EMS became accredited with the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services (CAAS). This accreditation is presented to ambulance services that meet the highest quality of standards and care. The Central EMS dispatch team is an IAED accredited 9-1-1 center in the state of Arkansas, and dispatchers are all trained and certified to provide the best care and instruction to people in need until the paramedics arrive.
Residents spend two weeks, or half of one rotation block, at Central EMS substations, where they respond to calls with the EMS team and provide supervised patient care.