Programs & Services
Emergency Services
(908) 668-2127Muhlenberg features a comprehensive emergency services system for around-the-clock care. Our sophisticated Emergency Department is staffed by full-time physicians and nurses trained in emergency care. It is supported by medical specialists and subspecialists, surgeons, psychiatrists and dentists, as well as a surgical trauma team. Advanced cardiac capabilities are also available through the Emergency Department.
Two Mobile Intensive Care Teams, Mercy 6 and Mercy 7 are on call 24 hours a day, in conjunction with local rescue squads, providing advanced life support at the scene of an accident or trauma. Through radio communication, a team of specially trained certified paramedics, emergency medical technicians and registered nurses stay in constant contact with a Muhlenberg Emergency Department physician to administer appropriate treatment to critically ill patients while on route to the hospital. Mercy 6 and Mercy 7 are dispatched by calling 911.