Emergency Department
The emergency department (ED) at Plainview Hospital sees nearly 35,000 patients a year. As a community hospital, we care for all routine emergency and urgent care patients. Our facilities are open 24/7.
Our ED provides many advanced programs to ensure that our patients receive state-of-the-art care for virtually any illness or injury.
Getting here
Our emergency department is located at 888 Old Country Road in Plainview. When you enter our hospital parking lot, go straight and follow the red emergency signs.
What we offer
- New York state-certified stroke center: Fast treatment for strokes can mean the difference between life and death. We provide widely recognized care for patients suffering from ischemic strokes (the most common) and hemorrhagic strokes.
- We received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, which recognizes our commitment to a higher standard of stroke care.
- We received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, which recognizes our commitment to a higher standard of stroke care.
- Separate fast-track unit: The fast-track unit at Plainview Hospital's ED allows patients with minor illnesses or injuries to be treated rapidly in an environment appropriate to the severity of their illness. Open daily from 11am to 11pm, our four-bed unit is staffed by an attending emergency physician and emergency nurses, residents, physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
- Family practice residency training site: We are a training site for our Family Practice Residency Program. We teach doctors studying to be family practitioners about the emergency care of all types of patients.
- Orthopedic residency training site: We are a training site for orthopedic residents, teaching the orthopedists of tomorrow how to care for emergent injuries of the musculoskeletal system.
- Acute care surgery: This is a combination of trauma surgery, surgical critical care and emergency general surgery.
Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award
The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association have awarded us for using today’s latest research to treat heart disease and stroke, leading to more lives saved, faster recovery times and fewer readmissions to the hospital.
