Lourdes Emergency Room

Lourdes Emergency Room and Trauma Care

When Should You go to the Emergency Room?

In the event of an emergency or a trauma, Lourdes Emergency Room is ready and able to handle your emergency. Unless it’s an emergency, you should visit your Primary Care Provider or Lourdes Urgent Care.

Lourdes ER has a qualified medical staff including trauma physicians, surgeons, X-ray technicians, and nurses, all committed to medicine with a mission. Our full service, 24/7 emergency department physicians and nurses care for over 25,000 patients each year.

This experienced care team provides individualized urgent and emergency services for our community. Lourdes’ long term designation as a Level III trauma hospital meets the needs of our community. State-of-the-art lab and imaging, emergency surgery, and observation/short stay services support the care patients need when coming to the Emergency Department.

You should call your doctor if you need:
- Yearly health exams
- Well - baby checks
- Care of minor ailments
- Immunizations
- Flu shots

You should call your doctor or visit Lourdes Urgent Care if you have:
- Minor burns or cuts
- Minor illness
- Minor sprains
- Ear infections
- Fever
- Sore throat
- Stomach ache
- Headaches / Dizziness

If You Have an Emergency

Go to the nearest Emergency Room. If you cannot get there right away, call 911. Call your primary care doctor within 24 hours of your emergency. If you cannot call, have someone call for you.
- Difficulty breathing, moving or speaking
- Chest pain
- Heavy bleeding
- Poisoning
- Broken bones
- Car accident { if injured }
- Choking
- Blacking out / Fainting
- Deep cuts or severe burns
- Attack by animal or person
- Sudden, severe pain and swelling in a joint
- Major trauma or injury
- Severe reaction to a bug bite / sting
- Severe reaction to medication
- Unexplained sleepiness or confusion

Intensive Care
Our fully-equipped, six-bed Intensive Care Unit is staffed with a compassionate, caring nursing staff who are willing to take the time to update family and friends on the condition of their loved one. Included in our ICU is a complete Cardiac Care Unit, and in cooperation with FMC Columbia Basin Dialysis, Lourdes ICU also offers full inpatient kidney dialysis services.

The Intensive Care Unit is a specialized area concentrating highly skilled personnel and specialized equipment for the care of the acutely ill medical and surgical patients requiring continuous treatment, observation, and monitoring. Our ICU typically admits patients with chest pain, congestive heart failure, major multi-system trauma, respiratory failure, pacemakers, and cardio version.

Contact Lourdes ER / Intensive Care
520 N. 4th Ave.
Pasco, WA 99301
ER (509) 546-2207
ICU (509) 546-2342

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