Emergency
Our team of Harvard faculty, attending physicians from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine provide round the clock coverage and medical direction of the BID-Needham Emergency Department. These physicians are all certified or board-eligible in Level 1 trauma.
Our Emergency Department provides patients with:
- Excellent nurses, all with Adult and Pediatric Advanced Life Support skills.
- Short wait times and rapid throughput.
- Stroke treatment within one hour of stroke. We have recently received Stroke Designation from the Mass. Dept. of Public Health.
- Excellent and quick Radiology services.
- Rapid transport to BIDMC in Boston for Stroke and MI (heart attack) patients featuring
- integrated protocols.
- seamless data-sharing.
- telemedicine for second opinions.
- access to BIDMC heart and neuro surgeons.
For Emergency Services, please call 1-800-639-CARE. The Emergency Room is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.