Location:

Emergency Department
759 Chestnut Street - Daly Building
Springfield, MA  01199

Services and Features:

• Only Level I Trauma Center in region - Serving all of Western Massachusetts, our trauma teams are always available to handle trauma, from a child's injury to a multi-casualty disaster.

• Regional Stroke Center - If a patient is experiencing symptoms of an acute stroke, our emergency physicians can initiate thrombolytic medications in order to help limit potentially devastating neurological outcomes.

• Nationally Recognized Cardiac Care Facility - With cardiac catheterization available 24/7, the interventional cardiology teams at BC offer the most cutting edge care and management of Acute Myocardial Infraction (MI) in Western Massachusetts.

• Only Academic Emergency Medicine Department in Western Massachusetts - As Tufts University School of Medicine's only program in emergency medicine and the only such program in the region, our faculty, residents and staff are leaders in research and current emergency medical care.

• Only Acute Subspecialty Care facility in the region - The BMC Emergency Department is the place you want to be whether you need an orthopedic subspecialist, ophthalmologist, or maxillo-facial or plastic surgeon.

• Only Acute Pediatric Care Hospital in Western Massachusetts - Baystate Children's Hospital provides advanced medical care to babies, children and adolescents and features the only Pediatric Intensive Care and Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the region.

• Magnet Hospital - In recognition of our outstanding nursing care, including nursing specialists in Emergency Medicine, BMC received Magnet Hospital designation, given to selected hospitals nationwide.  

 

BMC Emergency Medicine Staff

 

 

Physicians

Robert H. Baevsky, MD, Director, Chest Pain Center, & Director, Emergency Department Informatics

Gavin R. Budhram, MD - Director of Ultrasound

Jennifer Cyrkler, MD

Tala Rita Elia, MD

John George, MD

Thomas A. Gorman, MD

Marc D. Haber, MD

Philip L. Henneman, MD

Aaron Hexdall, MD - Director of International Medicine

Adam R. Kellogg, MD - Director of Medical Students

Kim Krach, MD

Michael J. Lemanski, MD

Timothy Mader, MD

Benjamin Mattingly, MD

Scot Millay, MD

Gregory S. McDonald, MD

David Murman, MD

Ben W. Osborne, MD - Associate Residency Director

J. Hector Pope, MD

Niels Rathlev, MD - Department Chair

Ned I. Rudnitzky, MD

John P. Santoro, MD - Vice Chair

Jeremy Sautner, MD

Joseph C. Schmidt, MD, Director, Emergency Medicine Program

Elizabeth M. Schoenfeld, MD

Howard A. Smithline, MD

Allison Sulivan, MD

Rakesh Talati, MD

Susan Torrey, MD - Associate Residency Director

Linda Willard, MD

Jeannette M. Wolfe, MD

 

Pediatric Emergency Medicine
David M. Barrett, MD

Geoffrey A. Capraro, MD

Richard Gabor, MD

Joeli Hettler, MD

Blake Spirko, MD, Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program

Physician Assistants

Patricia Dauley, MS, PA

Claudia Gaudet, PA-C

Meghan Irish

Matt Razon, PA

William Simon, PA-C

Michael Strapp, PA

Jim Wheeler, PA