Facilities
Hartford Hospital
80 Seymour Street
Hartford, CT 06102
(860) 545-5000
Hartford Hospital is an 850-bed, JCAHO accredited, acute care, regional, level-one trauma/medical center providing care in all medical specialties. The hospital was founded in 1854 and today is a major tertiary care and community health care center, serving a statewide patient population and is the largest medical center in Connecticut. It is the cornerstone of Connecticut’s finest full-spectrum health care system which includes, but is not limited to, The Institute of Living which is Hartford Hospital’s mental health network, and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center which serves as the major pediatric health center in Southern New England. Both facilities are located on Hartford Hospital’s campus in the south end of Hartford. As a teaching hospital, Hartford Hospital is a primary affiliate of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Dentistry.
There is a designated neurology inpatient care area consisting of a Stroke Center and a 34-bed unit shared with Neurosurgery and Trauma. Admissions to the neurology unit are controlled by the neurology staff. Outpatient clinical space consists of 5 examining rooms and a conference room. Full-time nursing and administrative personnel provide logistical as well as translation support.
The EEG suite located in the 85 Jefferson Street Medical Building has four EEG machines, four technicians, one supervisor and personnel trained in performing evoked potentials. EMG/NCS studies are done in the EMG lab located in the Conklin Building.
Adjacent to the academic office is the resident conference room/library that seats 30. It is equipped with a desk, two computers, video, slide and computer projection and view box facilities. The resident call room has a desk, computer, cable TV and VCR.
The general hospital clinical laboratory staffs 16 MD’s, 12 residents, 6 fellows, 3 post-doctoral fellows, 4 Ph.D.’s, and 202 technicians. Test results are developed in the laboratory and computerized so they are available via any PC in the hospital. Space is available in the research laboratories committed solely to Neurology.
The medical library at Hartford Hospital houses 23,560 textbooks, 21,737 bound journals, 969 journal subscriptions, and 2,500 AV titles. There is a small, purely neurology reading room and approximately 80-100 texts and monographs, etc. Databases available from the computers in the neurology resident conference room/library include MDConsult, PubMed, AVID, and NERVLINE. On-line access to MEDLINE is available from these computers also.
University Of Connecticut Health Center / John Dempsey Hospital
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030
(860) 679-3186
The 200-bed, JCAHO accredited John Dempsey Hospital, at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, CT, provides highly specialized inpatient, outpatient and primary care services. The Health Center contains most of the departmental research laboratories as well as the medical and dental schools, School of Public Health, and the Stowe Library, which is the regional center for medical libraries in the northeastern United States.
For inpatient care, medical beds are available as needed for the care of neurology inpatients. Outpatient clinical space contains 6 examination rooms with three adjacent EMG rooms, an EMG work room, a quantitative muscle testing room, a 2-room EEG suite and an EEG reading room, one physician work room and a conference room that seats 22. Computers and desk space are available to residents in the neurology workroom, EMG workroom and the consultation room.
In the academic suite, a desk and computer are available for residents in the conference room, which seats 12, as well as use of one of the physician offices.
The Health Center also boasts a complete clinical laboratory staffed with 1 MD, 4 Ph.D.’s, and 70 technologists. Clinical research is done in both the clinical area and the Uconn General Clinical Research Center. One NIH-funded laboratory is currently active within the neurology department.
The information resources of the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library are available either onsite or from home/office so faculty, students and staff can access the library’s linkage to over 2,400 electronic medical journals, 90 electronic textbooks and 120 databases. The library staff provides educational programs for effectively accessing the online health sciences information. The print and multimedia resources include 135,000 bound journal volumes, 45,600 monographs, 1,500 current journal subscriptions, 4,000 audiovisual titles, and 760 microcomputer software programs.