Stanford University Medical Center

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Stanford University Medical Center

Geography
Location	, Stanford, California, USA
Organisation
Care system	Private
Hospital type	Academic
Affiliated university	Stanford University School of Medicine
Services
Standards	Tertiary Care
Emergency department	Trauma I
Beds	613
History
Founded	1959
Links
Website	Stanford Hospital home page
Lists
Other links	List of hospitals in the United States

Stanford University Medical Center represents the Stanford Hospital and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and is located at 300 Pasteur Drive in Stanford, California. Stanford Hospital provides both general acute care services and tertiary medical care for patients locally, nationally and internationally. The hospital’s mission is to provide excellent care for its patients who live close by, as well as for those who come from afar for treatment of complex disorders. Organ transplantation, cancer diagnosis and treatment, cardiovascular medicine and surgery, and neurosciences are clinical specialties of worldwide renown.

Consistently ranking as one of best hospitals in the United States by US News and World Report and serving as the primary teaching hospital for the Stanford University School of Medicine, the hospital plays a key role in the training of physicians and other medical professionals. It provides a clinical environment for the medical school’s researchers as they study ways to translate new knowledge into effective patient care. Full-time faculty and community physicians make up the hospital medical staff.

[edit] History

The hospital's history began with the foundation of the Stanford Home for Convalescent Children in 1911. When the Medical School moved south from San Francisco in 1959, the hospital was established and was co-owned with Palo Alto. It was then known as Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center, until it was purchased by the University in 1968 and renamed. The Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine opened in 1989; the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford opened in 1991; the Richard M. Lucas Center for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging opened in 1992. In 1999, Stanford University approved a $185 million, five-year plan to improve the 40 year-old School of Medicine. Center for Clinical Sciences Research (CCSR) opened in 2000. The Clark Center for interdisplinary research and bioengineering opened in 2004. Among its many achievements, the first combined heart-lung transplant in the world was successfully completed at Stanford University Medical Center^[1] in 1981.

[edit] Location

The facility, located at the north end of the university's campus, is made up of the main hospital building, Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center, Blake Wilbur Building, Boswell Building, Hoover Pavilion, and an outpatient psychiatry facility. The roof of the main building contains a landing facility and Life Flight helicopter.^[1]

[edit] Staff

The hospital's medical staff numbers 1,910 and contains an additional 850 interns and residents, as well as nearly 1,500 registered nurses and approximately 610 licensed beds. Stanford Clinics, the group practice of most faculty physicians of Stanford University School of Medicine, includes 493 full-time faculty physicians. Their areas of expertise range from primary care to the most advanced medical and surgical specialties. Stanford Clinics offer more than 100 specialty and subspecialty service areas. Under the supervision of faculty physicians, Stanford medical students and residents participate in patient care in most specialties. The clinics participate in preferred provider health care programs as well as Medicare and MediCal.

[edit] Recognition

Stanford University Medical Center is world-renowned for its work in cardiovascular medicine and surgery, organ transplantation, neurology, neurosurgery, and cancer diagnosis and treatment.^[2] It has nearly 40,000 room visits per year and hosts 20,000 inpatients yearly.^[3] In 2007, Stanford Hospital was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the 15th-best hospital out of 5,462 medical centers in the United States.^[4] Stanford received high rankings in the following specialties^[5]

The Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is ranked as the #10 best children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report, which is notable because it is also the youngest hospital on the list having been founded in 1991.^{[6] [7]}

[edit] Services

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