Emergency Services from Mary Washington Healthcare

Mary Washington Healthcare operates three emergency departments at Mary Washington Hospital, Stafford Hospital, and the Emergency Department at Lee’s Hill. Coming in January 2024: Emergency Department at Harrison Crossing. These full-service emergency departments are open 24/7 year round for patient convenience. The three locations treat an average of 100,000 patients each year. Our staff includes board-certified emergency physicians and emergency-trained nurses. We see patients in order of acuity with a focus on life, limb, and eyesight emergencies. We routinely treat patients suffering from chest pain, fractures, electrical shock, respiratory trouble, eye injuries, stroke symptoms, poisoning, and more.

We can help you when you need us for:

• Abdominal (stomach) pain
• Animal bites
• Difficulty breathing/wheezing
• Electrical shock
• Eye injuries
• Fractures/sprains
• Headache
• Heat stress
• Burns
• Poisoning
• Fever
• Pain
• Asthma
• Excessive vomiting

In addition to these common injuries and illnesses, we offer highly specialized and coordinated care to our patients through treatment programs and services such as:

• Cardiac Hypothermia Program
• Chest Pain Observation Unit
• Certified Primary Stroke Center (Mary Washington Hospital)
• Level II Trauma Center (Mary Washington Hospital)
• Observation Unit (Mary Washington Hospital)

Medical Forensic Exam Services

If you are a victim of a crime, our first priority at Mary Washington Healthcare is making sure you receive the immediate healthcare services and emotional support you need. You may also receive services from a separate team of specially-trained forensic nurse examiners (FNE) to ensure important evidence is collected. The use of forensic nurse examiners provides high quality medical and forensic documentation and evidence collection which may lead to a more positive criminal justice outcome.

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We are an official “safe haven” for newborns

Mary Washington Hospital is an official Safe Haven site, where any parent has the option to relinquish the care of a child they choose not to keep.