When EMS gets called to a trauma – a car crash, a farming accident – the response is fast, and far-reaching.

As EMS rushes to the scene, the ambulance crew reports in to Medical Resource Control Center (MRCC), the regional dispatch center for emergency services. MRCC contacts the hospital’s Emergency Department, so the trauma team can prepare.

MRCC gives crucial details from the scene:

Hospitalization has been headline news during the pandemic. So, what’s it like to be in the hospital – whatever your illness or injury?

At Northfield Hospital, your care is led by hospitalists, doctors who specialize in hospital care. Northfield Hospital’s seven hospitalists are family practice and internal medicine doctors with additional expertise in high-acuity care – everything from recovery after surgery to injuries to heart attacks, respiratory illness, infectious disease.