Emergency & Trauma Services

Why choose Bronson for emergency care?

Bronson has three full-service locations:

• Bronson LakeView Hospital, Paw Paw
• Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo
• Bronson Vicksburg Outpatient Center, Vicksburg

All of these locations have access to the region's first Level I Trauma Center in southwest Michigan. Bronson Methodist Hospital has:

• southwest Michigan's first Level I Trauma Center
• the first accredited Chest Pain Emergency Center in southwest Michigan
• a certified Primary Stroke Center (Stroke and Neurovascular Center)
• the region's only burn center
• the only children's hospital in southwest Michigan
• 49 all-private emergency rooms
• a pharmacist on-site 20 hours a day, 7 days a week
• an electronic charting system for medical records and prescriptions
• 24-hour emergency care
• 94% of Emergency Department patients surveyed reported being satisfied or very satisfied with their experience and nearly 96% reported that they would definitely or probably return to Bronson for care.
• Consumers in Kalamazoo County prefer Bronson 2 to 1 for trauma/major emergency care and for minor emergency care.

Our Trauma Surgery Team





From left: Scott Davidson, MD, FACS, medical director for trauma surgery; Paul Blostein, MD; Sheldon Maltz, MS, MD, FACS, medical director for surgical critical care; and Jon Walsh, MD, MPH, FACS.


No wonder more people choose Bronson for emergency care! Listen to why emergency medicine physician Charles Zeller, MD, prefers Bronson.

Read why other emergency medicine physicians choose Bronson!

• Matthew Dommer, MD (billboard, print ad)
• Gerald Friedman, MD (billboard, print ad)
• Joseph Keithley, MD (billboard, print ad)
• Ernest Spirito, MD (billboard, print ad)
• Mary Staten-McCormick, MD (billboard, print ad)
• Charles Zeller, MD (billboard)

Quality
Bronson is designated as a Level I Trauma Center, the first one in southwest Michigan. Bronson is also the first hospital in the Kalamazoo area to have an accredited Chest Pain Emergency Center. In addition, Bronson Trauma & Emergency Services received the HealthGrades 2010 Emergency Medicine Excellence Award ™ for being in the top 5% in the nation for emergency medicine.

Patient Satisfaction

• 94% of Emergency Department patients surveyed from the reported being satisfied or very satisfied with their experience, and
• nearly 96% of Emergency Department patients surveyed reported that they would definitely or probably return to Bronson for care. This result places Bronson Methodist Hospital in the 99th percentile (based on the mean score) or top 1% of surveyor Gallup's database. The Gallup database consists of 336 hospitals with 190,458 total calls per year.

Community Outreach
Bronson is proud to take a leading role in Safe Kids Kalamazoo County. Safe Kids works with more than 30 organizations to reduce the number of preventable childhood injuries and deaths through a variety of outreach efforts. You can call (269) 341-8830 or visit www.safekidskalamazoo.org to learn more about Safe Kids activities.