The Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital is the only Pediatric Emergency Department in the city of Cleveland and an American College of Surgeons designated Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center. 

We receive patients of all acuity levels from the local emergency medical services, the Hospital’s Critical Care Transport and MedEvac Services and by private vehicle. 

It is here that residents learn how to assess, resuscitate, evaluate and treat pediatric patients with acute medical and surgical conditions.  The residents are directly supervised by Board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine physicians and Board-certified pediatricians 24 hours a day. PL-1 residents rotate through the PED during their AmbSurg block rotation, PL-2 and PL-3 residents spend an additional 5 months in the PED over the course of their residency. 

Education is provided through teaching about actual patients and a 25-topic on-line curriculum that covers everything from splinting and suturing to toxicology and trauma. 

A separate Rapid Care area, staffed by community pediatricians, helps manage the patient flow during the busy afternoon and evening hours.  A brand new Emergency Medicine Center is planned to open in 2010.