Augusta University Health is a world-class health care network, offering the most comprehensive primary, specialty and subspecialty care in the region. Augusta University Medical Center provides skilled, compassionate care to its patients, conducts leading-edge clinical research and fosters the medical education and training of tomorrow’s health care practitioners.
Georgia Regents Health System is a not-for-profit corporation that manages the clinical operations of Augusta University Medical Center, including the 478-bed Medical Center, the Medical Office Building with more than 80 outpatient practice sites in one convenient setting, the Critical Care Center housing a 13-county regional trauma center and the 154-bed Children's Hospital of Georgia. The health system also includes a variety of centers and units such as the Sports Medicine Center and Cancer Center.
Being an academic health center, Augusta University Medical Center differs from community hospital s. The three primary missions are: patient care, education and research. As an academic health center, a full range of clinical services are provided and the infrastructure to foster education and research is upheld.
Augusta University’s Hospitals and Clinics are accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, the national body that establishes and enforces standards of quality for health care institutions. It is a member of the Council of Teaching Hospitals of the American Association of Medical Colleges, the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions and the University Hospitals Consortium, a nationwide association of hospitals serving medical universities.
The Augusta VA Medical Center (VAMC) proudly offers quality health care to our nation's
veterans. The Augusta VAMC primary service area includes 17 counties in Georgia and
seven counties in South Carolina; but as a member of the Atlanta Veterans Integrated
Service Network (VISN7), veterans who live as far away as Alabama may be cared for
in the Augusta VAMC.
The Augusta VAMC is a two-division medical center which provides tertiary care in medicine, surgery, neurology,psychiatry, rehabilitation medicine, and spinal cord injury. The Downtown Division adjacent to the Augusta University has 155 beds (52 medicine, 37 surgery, six neurology, and 60 spinal cord injury). The Augusta VAMC serves as a network resource for the treatment of spinal cord injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and psychiatry patients.
The Augusta VAMC prides itself on continually improving and expanding its health care knowledge. The VAMC fully supports, as part of its mission, graduate medical education. The use of the Augusta VAMC as a training site for MCG Residents has a long history, and the affiliation between the Augusta VAMC and Augusta University may be one of the older ones in the entire VA system. The Augusta VAMC's participation in this affiliation not only helps fulfill an education mission but also contributes to a high level of care provided to veteran patients. Medical residents are involved in nearly every aspect and phase of the care of medical and dental patients offered at the Augusta VAMC.
University Hospital has served the medical needs of the Augusta community since 1818.
From 1828 until 1956 it was the primary teaching hospital for the Medical College
and subsequent to 1956, with the opening of the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital,
University Hospital and its medical staff has maintained a teaching affiliation with
the Medical College for both undergraduate and postgraduate medical programs. Now,
almost two hundred years old, University Hospital has emerged as a multifaceted community
not-for-profit health care system, offering a comprehensive and integrated range of
health care services to those throughout the Augusta-area and beyond.
The University Health Care System is anchored by the 612-bed University Hospital, the second largest hospital in Georgia. Its Medical Staff numbers more than 600 physicians representing every medical and surgical specialty and provides comprehensive acute care services. More than 21,000 patients are admitted, 3,000 babies delivered, and 100,000 patients treated in the Emergency Department annually. Other services include Women's Health, Behavioral Health, Laboratory Outreach, Nutrition, Rehabilitation, and Rape Crisis & Sexual Assault Services. University Hospital also has service agreements with nine affiliate hospitals located throughout the Central Savannah River A rea.
The Medical College affiliation with University Hospital enhances the training of undergraduate and postgraduate students by incorporating into their experiences real life community services provided by privately practicing community physicians. It demonstrates those services which they will be expected to provide upon completion of their training. The affiliation also demonstrates to students and residents how vital community services evolve in a changing healthcare environment in order to improve the health of citizens of our community.
Perhaps more than any other area of medicine, burn center patients require a highly complex care environment - one in which diverse medical professionals collaborate as a team; new technologies converge with practical applications; patients and their families find solace and support; and prevention education is both a calling and a mission.
For over 30 years, the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital has been dedicated to delivering the highest standard of care to burn center patients and their families. Doctor’s Hospital has been successful in retaining one of the most experienced burn center teams in the Southeast. Joseph M. Still Burn Center is nationally recognized as a leader in burn research and treatment with a 70-bed unit and admission of more than 3,000 patients annually from throughout the Southeast. They offer professional training programs and promote fire prevention awareness to communities worldwide.
In 2011, the Joseph M. Still Burn Center was recognized as a participant in the Georgia Trauma Network as a designated Burn Center. This designation makes the burn center part of the Georgia Trauma Care Network, a group of hospitals and medical centers statewide with the resources to care for the most traumatically injured patients. In addition, the Burn Center was verified by the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons. It is the only Trauma program in the state verified by the American College of Surgeons.
