On March 26, 2008 Peninsula Regional Medical Center enhanced its rich tradition of providing the best in emergency/trauma care when the region's most experienced, 115 member emergency/trauma team opened the Delmarva Peninsula's most modern emergency care center, the new Robert T. Adkins, M.D. Emergency/Trauma Center.
How To Get Here
The new Robert T. Adkins, M.D. Emergency/Trauma Center is located on the first floor of the new Layfield Tower, a magnificent 4 story patient care tower between Vine and Locust Streets on the southwest side of the Medical Center's campus.
How To Enter
The new Robert T. Adkins, M.D. Emergency/Trauma Center at Peninsula Regional has been designed with separate entrances for patients arriving by ambulance and those arriving by car.
All walk-in patients enter from the Locust Street side of the Layfield Tower, while all ambulances enter from the Vine Street side of the Layfield Tower.
Having the two separate entrances allows for greater patient privacy and more efficient attention to every patient's specific needs.
Where To Park
All Emergency/Trauma patient and visitor parking is FREE and located in Parking Garage B on Locust Street. Garage B is directly across from the Locust Street walk-in patient entrance to the new Robert T. Adkins, M.D. Emergency/Trauma Center. While patients may be dropped off at the walk-in entrance, there will be no parking provided there.
Parking in Garage B is FREE for not only Emergency/Trauma Center patients and visitors but for all visitors to the Medical Center.
Most Experienced Team
Over 1,000,000 emergency/trauma patients have been treated at Peninsula Regional since the opening of the first Accident Ward in 1946. Nearly 75,000 are expected to be treated this year alone.
Twice As Large
The new Robert T. Adkins, M.D. Emergency/Trauma Center is more than twice as large as its predecessor and can easily and comfortably accommodate 90,000 patient visits per year.
An "Express Care" area continues to operate for less ill or less seriously injured patients, with a goal of 70 minutes or sooner from arrival to treatment and discharge.
Most Modern and Efficient
Designers have created an Emergency/Trauma Center with the special needs of critical care and emergency patients in mind. All treatment spaces are private, larger and identical in shape and size, allowing for maximum flexibility of care by a full team of clinical specialists and the ability to treat any emergency injury in any room from the least serious to the most severe.
Four spacious and sophisticated trauma rooms have been equipped with the latest in high-tech, emergency medical technology to handle every major traumatic injury that arrives at the Eastern Shore's state-designated, Level III Emergency/Trauma Center.
Quick Injury Assessment
Dedicated CT Scanning and other radiology and ultrasound equipment is permanently based in the Emergency/Trauma Center for rapid injury assessment.
Emergency/Trauma Services
A team of 115 specially trained emergency and trauma professionals provides life saving care to over 70,000 people each year, including 1,300 trauma patients, in Peninsula Regional's Robert T. Adkins, M.D. Emergency/Trauma Center.
Regional Trauma Center
As the state designated Regional Trauma Center for this area, our emergency and trauma teams stand ready to handle anything from a scraped knee to a full-scale regional disaster. Physicians in all medical specialties are either in house or on call 24 hours a day to support the emergency and trauma teams and trauma surgeons in the "golden hour" of care when quick and accurate decisions can and do save lives.
Express Care
Our "Express Care" area for the less seriously injured treats over 10,000 patients each year with a goal of treating and discharging in 70 minutes or less.
Our teams have earned an outstanding reputation for reliable and accurate emergency and trauma care when seconds count.
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