Emergency Department - Allina Health - Cambridge Hospital and Clinic

Emergency medicine and Level 4 trauma center for severe and life-threatening situations that require immediate medical attention including:

- Adult mental health hospital care: For adults ages 18 and older who need 24 hour hospital care. Criteria for admission to the unit are for the patient to be a danger to self or others. This treatment program is for patients who have a major mental illness and require professional assistance to learn how to cope with significant problems they are experiencing in day-to-day living. Patients receive care in the secured hospital unit while learning how to manage their illness. Professionals from a variety of health care disciplines including psychiatrists, hospitalists, registered nurses, social workers, program specialists and leisure skills facilitators assist patients with treatment and recovery.

​- Chest pain or pressure

- Head injury

- Heart attack or acute coronary syndrome

- Seizures

- Severe abdominal pain

- Sexual assault

- Shortness of breath or pneumonia

- Stroke

- Sudden, severe headaches, paralysis or weakness

- Traumatic injury

- Uncontrolled bleeding