What is the emergency department like at KRMC?
The emergency department at KRMC is a very busy rural community emergency department (> 46,000 patients per year). There is a high volume of sick trauma patients, as well as unstable medical patients seen in the department. There are a variable number of medical students, interns, and residents working in the emergency department, all supervised by the emergency medicine attending staff. The department has 35 beds, plus a lower acuity zone where patients with more minor medical complaints and minor trauma are treated at least 12 hours a day with physician assistant coverage. There is 24 hour attending coverage in the ED and attending physicians staff all patients with the residents.
