South Bay Hospital

South Bay Hospital is committed to being the best community hospital. The facility is a fully accredited 112-bed acute care hospital and offers a wide range of services, including 24-hour emergency care, adult critical care, diagnostic imaging, minimally invasive surgery, neurology, orthopedics, urology, vascular surgery and both inpatient and outpatient diagnostic and rehabilitation services. Keeping with the community needs, South Bay Hospital has been named a Joint Commission Certified Advanced Primary Stroke Center, a Chest Pain Center Accredited by the Society of Chest Pain Centers and the recipient of the Silver Plus Award from the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines Stroke Program. __________________________________________________ ADVANCED TECHNOLOGYSouth Bay Hospital is now offering potential emergency room patients how long the wait is before they make the trip. Patients can text 23000 with the word ER in the text body to find out the wait time from their cell phone. Electronic Health Record (EHR) – With EHR, access to patient health information is simplified and patient safety and quality improved. Our hospitals have brought numerous clinical components for the EHR on-line through major investments in technology. Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) –The PACS system immediately digitizes images such as X-rays, and other scans including CT, MRI and PET, so they can be stored and electronically viewed on screens anywhere. This enables doctors and other health care professionals to access the images, even remotely, and to compare new images with previous images at the touch of a button. Electronic Medication Bar Coding System (eMAR) – We led a national effort to reduce medication errors by placing this system in all of our hospitals. Bar codes on medications are scanned at the patient's bedside, providing our clinical staff with an effective tool to ensure that the right patient receives the right medication at the right time through the right route. __________________________________________________ Accreditations and CertificationsACCREDITED HOSPITAL (JOINT COMMISSION) ACCREDITED CHEST PAIN CENTER CERTIFIED ADVANCED PRIMARY STROKE CENTER (JOINT COMMISSION) SILVER PLUS AWARD BY THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION