Joseph M. Still Burn Center

Joseph M. Still Burn Center is a large medical burn facility located in Augusta, Georgia (United States). It is part of the Doctors Hospital campus, and serves as a primary burn care center for the Southeastern United States. The 59-bed unit sees admission of more than 2,000 patients annually, mostly from the southeast. Dr. Joseph M. Still, Jr., founded the center in 1978, beginning with one bed in the intensive care unit of Doctors Hospital, eventually expanding to the present state-of-the-art facility, which is currently the largest burn center in the country, and third largest in the world.

Operations

The Joseph M. Still Burn Center operates satellite clinics through WellStar Cobb Hospital in Austell, Georgia, Trident Medical Center in North Charleston, South Carolina and Crossgates River Oaks Hospital in Brandon, Mississippi. It also operates several community outreach educational programs designed to prevent burn injuries, especially targeted at children, as they make up approximately 30% of the patient population of the center. The Joseph M. Still Research Foundation, Inc. is a not-for-profit, private organization affiliated with the Joseph M. Still Burn Center created with the purpose of developing clinical research to improve the care of burn patients, developing educational programs for members of the Burn and Wound Team, providing assistance and teaching in burn care to under-developed countries, in response to burn disasters in particular and to disseminate new knowledge in epidemiology and management of burn-associated injuries and wounds.

Expansion

The current facility will be replaced with a newer, larger building as part of the Doctors Hospital expansion project that will include improved and modern burn operation rooms, a new entrance, and a larger family room.

See also

• List of burn centers in the United States

External links

• Joseph M. Still Burn Center
• Joseph M. Still Burn Centers, Inc.