1. Creighton University Medical Center (formerly Saint Joseph Hospital )Saint Joseph Hospital was founded as a 28 bed facility in 1870 with $12,000 in funds raised by the Sisters of Mercy. The hospital joined in partnership with Creighton University in 1892. Since then the hospital has grown tremendously and has moved twice. Its present location, adjacent to Creighton University, was opened in 1977. Today Saint Joseph Hospital at Creighton University Medical Center is a 400 plus bed acute care facility. Saint Joseph Hospital provides state of the art care while serving as a setting for education and research programs. There are over 10,000 admissions and approximately 27,000 emergency department visits each year. Saint Joseph Hospital is the training site for about 270 residents and fellows from accredited programs in anesthesiology, family practice, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, pathology, pediatrics, psychiatry, diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, colorectal surgery, in addition to the internal medicine program and its related fellowships of allergy/ immunology, cardiology, pulmonary/critical care, and infectious diseases. Saint Joseph Hospital provides care to patients from a 150 mile radius of western Iowa and eastern Nebraska, in addition to the residents of the city of Omaha. This Level I trauma center offers advanced cardiology services, complete surgical services, including kidney transplantation, state of the art radiology services, and emergency care in a brand new emergency room. Saint Joseph Hospital is committed to providing quality and compassionate care to all of its patients, be they the homeless of Omaha who seek primary care in the emergency room, or patients who have traveled hundreds of miles, seeking specialized care.
Omaha VA Medical Center Built in 1947, the Omaha Veterans Administration Medical Center provides primary and tertiary care to veterans from all over the state of Nebraska and western Iowa. Cases are referred to the Omaha VAMC from the VA hospitals in Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska, as well as Sioux City, Iowa and Hot Springs, South Dakota for specialized care. This 398 bed facility has approximately 74 medicine acute care beds. The Omaha VAMC is shared as a training facility with the residents and fellows from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The VA is a training site for residents and fellows in anesthesiology, allergy/immunology, cardiology, infectious diseases, internal medicine, neurology, neurological surgery, obstetrics/gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, pathology, psychiatry, pulmonary/critical care, diagnostic radiology, interventional radiology, general surgery and urology.
3. Ambulatory Care Training Sites This residency program has long realized the need for ambulatory training, in addition to a strong inpatient care program. The residents in our program receive extensive training at various locations. Residents follow the same patients in their own continuity clinics throughout the duration of the program. All first year residents have a weekly outpatient clinic at Creighton University Medical Center, the Omaha VA Medical or at our clinic at 25th and L Street. Second and Third year residents have bi-weekly clinics at the same sites. In addition, during the second or third year, each resident spends a month in the offices of a busy, affiliated, internal medicine private practice group.
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