Posted Oct. 6, 2010

• Moving after more than 27 years from its former location on V Street to its new location on 45th Street between V and X Streets
• New name: Michael W. Chapman Emergency and Trauma Center at UC Davis Medical Center
• Cost of move: Approximately $32 million, not including equipment
• Serves a 33-county, 65,000 square-mile area north to the Oregon border and east to Nevada and beyond
• More than double the size:
  • Over 40,000 square feet, up from approximately 19,000 square feet in former emergency department
  • Sixty-two percent more beds: 68 beds, up from 42 beds
  • Pediatric beds: 11 beds, up from seven
  • Approximately 55,000 patients treated each year in emergency department, one of the busiest in Northern California
• Only level I trauma center verified by the American College of Surgeons for both adults and children in inland Northern California
• Trauma stations: Three trauma stations
• Four emergency department treatment “pods,” three adult pods and one pediatric pod
• Fast-track area for less acutely ill patients
• Paperless emergency department: Wired for mobile medical devices, allowing patient information to be gathered, entered and recorded into electronic medical record system at bedside — new ED is paperless
• Nearly 100 faculty and staff involved in planning and implementing the move over a three-year period
• Staff:
  • 29 emergency department physicians board-certified in emergency medicine, 40 residents, three fellows and eight clinical faculty
  • 5 pediatric emergency department physicians sub-board-certified in pediatric emergency medicine
  • 8 surgeons board-certified in surgery and in surgical critical-care medicine
• Required changing more than 1,250 internal signs, numerous external signs

Location map of new trauma center

Click here to download print version of location map (pdf).