Rapid Triage Center
If you are experiencing a critical or life-threatening illness, our Rapid Triage Center’s ER staff will provide you with prompt, compassionate care.
The triage process helps our ER staff decide which patients should be treated first. All our patients are evaluated in this manner. Patients with critical or life-threatening illnesses are given top priority.
Our triage nurse has special training to your condition and will ask you questions about your illness or injury and take your blood pressure, pulse and temperature. Under physician guidance and using standard protocols, the triage nurse can begin your care immediately. Medicine for pain or fever may be given and X-rays ordered right away. The Emergency Department staff works hard to provide prompt care, but you may still experience a wait depending on several factors, including the nature of your condition, how busy the department is when you arrive and the number of patients requiring critical care.
Urgent Care Centers: When and Where You Need Care
For non-life-threatening medical conditions, Hartford HealthCare has several Urgent Care Centers in the Fairfield area to treat you and your family when and where you need care. Locations include: Fairfield, Monroe, Norwalk, Shelton, Stratford, and Trumbull.
Urgent Care Centers
At the Ready: Stroke and Heart Care Teams
St. Vincent’s is a nationally recognized Stroke Center with accreditation from The Joint Commission. If you or a family member shows symptoms of stroke, care begins in the ambulance. St. Vincent's cardiovascular experts provide 24 hour coverage and a special hospital team is at the ready when you arrive at the hospital. You will be evaluated and cared for immediately.
The Stroke Center
Emergency Angioplasty
Psychiatric Emergency
St. Vincent’s psychiatric emergency medicine team provides professional emergency care in the largest in-patient facility in Fairfield County, for both children and adults. For additional information about our comprehensive in-patient and outpatient behavioral health services, click here.
Your Care Team
Team members who work beside our ER physicians include: consulting physicians, physician assistants, social workers, registered nurses, nurse case managers, nursing assistants, clinical support associates, volunteers, registrars, and environmental services staff.
Pre-Hospital EMS
The St. Vincent’s Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of EMS provides medical authorization, oversight and continuing education for area pre-hospital providers. The Division additionally functions to support EMS providers in their roles and to improve the transition of care between prehospital and in-hospital providers.
Pre-Hospital EMS