Southside Regional Medical Center

Southside Virginia's newest hospital, the Southside Regional Medical Center (SRMC), opened its doors in July 2008. Located in Petersburg on Wagner Road at the I-95 interchange, the 420,000-square-foot facility has 300 beds but is licensed for 408 and will expand to meet community needs.

The state-of-the-art hospital features the very latest in technology, patient amenities and architectural designs:

• The hospital's eight operating rooms, as well as the trauma and cardiac departments, are equipped with high-definition TVs and digital imaging equipment.
• A pneumatic tube system allows laboratory results to be rapidly distributed throughout the building from the main lab on the first floor.
• A beeper system allows outpatients and their families to move freely about the hospital until called by the hospital staff. The beeper system also allows hospital staff to update family members after a surgical procedure.
• The Post Anesthesia Care Unit is centrally located, a benefit for patients recovering from surgery, cardiac catheterization, endoscopy and other procedures.

SRMC treats about 163,000 outpatients each year and another 12,000 inpatients. The SRMC Website notes that the facility is the sole "24-Hour Emergency Services-Only Trauma Designated Hospital" in southern Virginia. SRMC had 45,000 emergency room and trauma patient visits in 2007.

Southside Regional Medical Center is the region’s largest employer with more than 1,400 employees. At the time of the July opening, SRMC's Website listed 188 active physicians, 34 consulting physicians, 59 courtesy physicians and 38 allied health professionals.

Among the specialties listed on the facility's Website: Advanced Imaging, Anesthesiology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Gynecology, Hematology / Oncology, Hospitalists / Intensivists, Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Neonatology, Nephrology, Neurology, Obstetrics, Ophthalmology, Oral / Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology, Pain Management, Pathology, Pediatrics, Plastic Surgery, Podiatry, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, Radiation Oncology, Rheumatology, Spine Surgery, Sports Medicine, Thoracic Surgery, Urology, Vascular Surgery, and Wound Care.

The modern facility has its roots in the 1800s, when the original hospital was established as the Petersburg Home for the Sick on South Sycamore Street. The name was changed to Petersburg Hospital in 1886. The facility took its current name in 1986 in recognition of the surrounding community that it serves. Besides Petersburg, SRMC regularly treats patients from Hopewell, Colonial Heights, Fort Lee and Chester as well as the counties of Prince George, Dinwiddie, Sussex, Surry and southern Chesterfield.

SRMC is one of several hospitals in Southside Virginia. For your convenience, the Cuthbert Law Offices Website has a directory of other Southside VA health care facilities.

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