Auburn Memorial Hospital Emergency Department
Auburn, New York
Auburn Memorial Hospital (AMH) is a not-for-profit, 99-bed acute care facility serving a population of approximately 80,000 in Cayuga County and the surrounding areas, located in the Finger Lakes region of Central New York. Founded in 1878 by a group of community-minded individuals who recognized the growing health care needs of Auburn and Cayuga County, the original13-bed hospital was called Auburn City Hospital, located at the current site on Lansing Street.
Clinical services offered by AMH include emergency care, intensive care, coronary care, laboratory services, maternity, pediatrics, psychiatric services, orthopedics, respiratory and physical therapy, radiology, inpatient and outpatient surgery, wound treatment, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, cardiovascular lab services and medicine. Annual patient visits to the AMH Emergency Department exceed 20,000.
Auburn Memorial Hospital has a goal to be among the top 5-10% of all community hospitals in the nation. As part of its efforts to achieve this, the Hospital brought on Pegasus Emergency Group in July 2010 to manage its Emergency Department. Current practices have been evaluated and improvements are being implemented, including the installation of a state of the art electronic medical records (EMR) system to improve patient safety, risk management, and core measure compliance.
Tom-meka Archinard MD, FACEP
Medical Director
Dr. Archinard joined Pegasus Emergency Group in 2011. She earned a Doctor of Medicine degree at Wake Forest University School of Medicine at Bowman Gray and completed a Residency in Emergency Medicine at the State University of New York, Brooklyn Health Sciences Center, Kings County Hospital. She is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Medicine and member the Medical Director's Academy of the American College of Emergency Medicine. She has also achieved Lean Six Sigma and Green Belt Six Sigma certification from Villanova University as a result of her interest in learning how to develop processes to improve quality and patient safety.