Facilities
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Stanford Hospital & Clinics is a 621-bed facility located in the San Francisco Bay Area with an emphasis on advanced patient care. It provides tertiary care of rare and complex disorders for much of northern California and the West Coast, in addition to serving the region as a level one trauma center. It is home to one of the nation's first certified stroke centers, and in 2012 Stanford Hospital was the first in the nation to earn the comprehensive stroke center designation. The Neurology Inpatient Service is typically very busy. Its volume has steadily grown over the past decade, and has risen to the second highest amongst all Californian university hospitals. The Neuroscience Outpatient Clinic handles over 20,000 patient visits a year in its general and subspecialty neurology and neurosurgery clinics. Neurodiagnostic services include EEG, EMG, video monitoring, polysomnography, evoked potentials, intraoperative monitoring, transcranial doppler, genetic counseling, a full autonomic testing laboratory and neuropsychological testing. Neuroradiology provides PET, MR spectroscopy and other functional imaging studies in addition to all the traditional imaging services.
Stanford Cancer Center
The Stanford Cancer Center offers health professionals a unique atmosphere where patient care is a priority, access to cutting-edge technologies and treatments is commonplace, and your professional development is valued. Under one roof, the Cancer Center brings together cutting-edge technologies for both diagnosis and treatment. This consolidation of technology makes it convenient to deliver the best possible care to your patients and monitor their progress. With access to the CyberKnife, CAD-assisted digital mammography, and cutting-edge brachytherapy (just to name a few), and a large number of clinical trials, you can be confident that the treatment best suited for your patients is nearby.
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital
This hospital adjoins the Stanford University Hospital, and is dedicated to the care of children with acute and chronic diseases. The hospital has 311 licensed beds and a medical staff of around 800. Neurology provides inpatient care, consultative service and outpatient care, as well as a full range of ancillary services like those on the adult neurology service.
Veterans Administration Palo Alto Health Care System
The hospital has 235 medical-surgical beds and additional psychiatric beds. This facility is located approximately five miles from the Stanford University Hospital, and is home to a positron emission tomography (PET) unit as well as important programs in psychiatry, rehabilitation medicine, geriatrics and spinal cord rehabilitation. Neurology maintains a busy outpatient clinic, an inpatient service and a consultation service. It also provides clinical neurophysiology and neuropathology services.
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Santa Clara, CA
This 574-bed medical center cares for thousands of patients and provides for over a half-million outpatient and emergency visits every year. It is a level one trauma center for Santa Clara county, one of the most populous counties in the Bay Area. With its open door policy guaranteeing residents access to medical care, it serves the medically indigent patients of Santa Clara county as well as culturally and ethnically diverse patient populations.
The neurology rotation comprises an active inpatient consultation service and a busy outpatient clinic, and gives residents exposure to a very wide range of acute and chronic neurologic disorders. Attending physicians, all members of the Stanford faculty, are actively involved in bedside teaching, weekly conferences, and the supervision of patient care.
