Emergency Department
“The SVH Emergency Department is proud to offer our community both state-of-the-art and compassionate care.” Dr. Jared Hubbell
Sonoma Valley Hospital maintains the only Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit in Sonoma Valley.
We are a patient-acclaimed, 24-hour, fully equipped facility with state-of-the-art technology, staffed by on-site physicians and nurses specially trained in emergency medicine and supported by surgeons, anesthesiologists and respiratory therapists, as well as radiology and laboratory services and all the other resources necessary to meet our stringent California state standards for emergency care.
Along with traditional emergency medicine, we offer specialized services such as life-saving telemedicine. Now, a patient with stroke symptoms who comes to Sonoma Valley Hospital will be observed within minutes by one of the Bay Area’s most highly skilled neurologists at California Pacific Medical Center, who will assist in the immediate diagnosis and treatment.
For heart attack patients, we have an exceptional transfer arrangement with Marin General Hospital so that the time from arrival into our emergency room to the time the patient is given the proper intervention in the heart catheterization center does not exceed the national standard of 90 minutes. So far, our life-saving record is well within that time limit.
SVH collaborates with Sonoma FireMed, the local emergency ambulance provider, to offer quick and efficient transport to the hospital by trained emergency staff. Transport services are also arranged for patients requiring procedures (such as heart surgery) that are not performed at SVH. Emergency patients and others who require specialized, life-sustaining treatment may be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, where they receive highly individualized, around-the-clock care.