Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
 
DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Emergency Department

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Emergancy and Trama Center entrence239 Thompson Building
1020 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Theodore A. Christopher, MD, FACEP
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Emergency Department (ED), which this year became an Academic Department of Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, is staffed by a team of Jefferson physicians board-certified in Emergency Medicine. They staff the ultramodern ED 24 hours a day, seven days week, to handle patients' emergency needs. Together with the medical center's trauma surgeons, ED nurses, ED technicians and ancillary ED staff, the emergency physicians in the ED staff Jefferson's Level 1 Trauma Center.

The department offers a range of services including emergency pediatric care, a Sexual Assault Center, Travel Medicine Services, Workers Compensation Clinic, and a Community Youth Violence Prevention Program. The department also oversees the JeffSTAT transport program and is a paramedic and EMT training center.