Emergency Department Glens Falls Hospital

Address

100 Park St.
Glens Falls, NY 12801
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Hours

Call 911 in an emergency. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Office Phone

518-926-1000

If you have a medical emergency, call 911.

Offering comprehensive and coordinated emergency care available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We are located at Glens Falls Hospital at 100 Park St., Glens Falls.

Call the Glens Falls Hospital Emergency Department at 518-926-1000.

More About Our Emergency Care

Our 43-bed center provides care to more than 46,000 patients annually.

Glens Falls Hospital is a designated as a New York State Primary Stroke Center to improve the standard of quality and access to care for patients with a presumptive diagnosis of stroke. We offer immediate, enhanced brain imaging and evaluation for patients who present to the Emergency Department and could be suffering from a stroke or stroke symptoms.

We are a recipient of the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline Award. This means that our patients benefit from our focus on acute, high-risk, and time sensitive treatment as it relates to cardiac diseases. Lifeline program’s goal is to reduce system barriers to prompt treatment for heart attacks, beginning with the 911 call and continuing through hospital treatment.

Behavioral Health Crisis Center

The Crisis Center located in the Emergency Department at Glens Falls Hospital offers immediate, 24-hour access to behavioral health crisis services for adults and children. It provides support for the rapid de-escalation of a crisis as well as a connection to community-based behavioral health services.

Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE)

Our Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) team of registered nurses is with you every step of the way. They answers your questions, support your decisions, and provide you with expert care.

To reach the Sexual Assault Nurse Coordinator, call 518-926-3147.

Warren and Washington County Sexual Assault Victim Services
1-866-307-4086

Wellspring: Saratoga County Victim Services
518-584-8188

What is SAFE?

  • Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners (SAFEs) are specially trained and certified professionals skilled in performing quality forensic medical-legal exams. Should a case go to trial, the SAFEs are then available to testify.
  • A SAFE can be a nurse, NP, PA, or MD that has been specially trained to perform forensic medical-legal exams.
  • SAFEs are on-call and available 24/7. They respond within 60 minutes to the Emergency Department ready to care for the victim of sexual assault
  • SAFEs will document the account of the assault, perform necessary medical exams, testing and treatment, then collect crucial, time sensitive evidence using the NYS Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit.
  • A forensic exam performed by a SAFE can take up to 6 hours from beginning to discharge of the patient.
  • SAFEs provide medical care to survivors without interruption, therefore maintaining the chain of evidence from the exam.
  • SAFEs perform exams with state of the art forensic equipment and supplies and are kept up to date with the latest in forensic science developments.