Emergency Services

Wuesthoff is ready for your emergency, big or small, 24/7

The Wuesthoff Emergency Departments at Rockledge and Melbourne can handle anything from sprained ankles and earaches to life-threatening injuries.

The departments are staffed by emergency physicians and specially trained nurses and paramedics certified in advanced cardiac life support. Wuesthoff treats more than 50,000 emergency patients every year. Our staff provides front-line evaluation and treatment and can connect patients with a full range of diagnostic tests and specialists such as cardiologists, orthopedic surgeons, respiratory specialists and others who are called upon to help save lives.

The Emergency Department's staff is trained to respond first to patients with life-threatening situations such as chest pain, respiratory distress, unstable vital signs and severe injuries. However, to reduce waiting and treatment time for patients with minor injuries which are non-life threatening, both Wuesthoff Medical Centers have ER fast track systems with expanded hours to ensure patients receive prompt medical attention.

The emergency room fast track system is part of Wuesthoff's continued mission to provide convenient and accessible healthcare to local communities. Both fast tracks are open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m..

For patients' families, Wuesthoff provides an electronic patient status board. This board provides friends and family members in the waiting room with your current treatment status.

Our Emergency Departments provide a critical lifeline that binds us to the community. We're constantly ready, prepared with an arsenal of life-saving technology and highly trained staff, ready for action the next time the ER doors open. Who will it be? A mother and baby? A man with chest pain? An elderly patient struggling to breathe?

At Wuesthoff's Emergency Departments we measure our day in seconds, not hours. We measure our success in lives won and the opportunity to give people a second chance at life. This is our commitment to a higher standard in emergency care.