St Joseph's Regional Medical Center

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Established originally in 2004, our residency program has quickly grown to support the needs of the Emergency Department at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, NJ.  With over 160,000 annual ED visits, St. Joseph’s has not only become the busiest ED in the state of New Jersey, but also one of the largest in the country.  As a designated stroke center, 24-hour interventional cardiac catheterization center and a level II trauma center, our 90 bed ED is equipped with all the necessary tools and resources for both patient care and resident education.

We are accredited by the ACGME as a three year emergency medicine residency and are affiliated with New York Medical College.  

St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center
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Toxicology , EMS , Prehospital Care

Buprenorphine on Wheels: Management of Opioid Use Disorder in Pre-Hospital Setting

12/2/2024 Carlos Rodriguez, DO , Sergio Camba, MD , Kimberly Baldino, MD
When paramedics initiate buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) and suspected overdose in the prehospital setting, they reach patients who face the highest risk of opioid-related mortal
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Cardiology , Hematology , Toxicology

Sudden Post-Coital Hemopericardium with Cardiac Tamponade on Apixaban

4/8/2021 Hardeep Hunjan, DO , Tiffany Anaebere, MD
Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have become the preferred anticoagulant medication for patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, deep vein thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism. However, recent c
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Toxicology , COVID-19

COVID or Coral? A Case Report

8/17/2020 Louisa Mazza-Hilway, MD
With the wide-ranging presentations seen among COVID-19 patients, it can be easy to miss other conditions.
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Administration & Operations

ABC, 123, Please Make Billing Easy for Me: A Resident's Intro to Billing

6/11/2020 Ray Isenburg, DO , Beth Kushner, DO
The bill a patient receives is more complicated than just the physician bill. It has multiple parts, and - depending on other services used during an ED visit - they may contain a few different charge
Cardiology , Radiology

Aortic Dissection: End the Glow!

2/12/2020 Roli Kushwaha, MD , Anthony Furiato, DO, FACEP , Justin McNamee, DO, FACEP
The key concern in the ED is if there is a way to risk stratify patients for AD and, if so, is there a test with high enough sensitivity and negative likelihood ratio to rule it out.
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Risk Management Pitfalls , Medico Legal , Medical Liability , Administration & Operations

Risk Management: Falls in the Emergency Department

10/16/2018 Ashley Guthrie, DO , Steven Hochman, MD, FACEP
Crowded, busy emergency departments seem susceptible to an increased risk of slip-and-fall accidents that keep administrators awake at night. But does the evidence bear out this assumption?
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Critical Care , Pain Management , Health Policy

Introducing the ALTO Alternatives to Opioids Program

8/1/2016 Katrina D’Amore DO, MPH , David Traficante, DO , Alexis M. LaPietra, DO, FACEP
Introducing the ALTO Alternatives to Opioids Program Steven Stack, MD, FACEP, an emergency medicine physician and immediate past-president of AMA, confronted the crisis in an open letter to America's
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Ophthalmology

Unforeseen Dangers: Keeping an Eye on Endophthalmitis

5/26/2016 Terrance McGovern, DO, MPH , David Traficante, DO , Anthony Catapano, DO
Unforeseen Dangers: Keeping an Eye on Endophthalmitis A 58-year-old female presents to the ED with a chief complaint of right eye pain. She underwent cataract surgery 2 days prior and has experienced
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Clinical , Cardiology

Clinical Utility of BNP in Acute Congestive Heart Failure

4/4/2016 Nilesh Patel, DO , Joseph Bove, DO
Clinical Utility of BNP in Acute Congestive Heart Failure You are working in the acute side of your emergency department when EMS brings in a patient in respiratory distress on CPAP. EMS reports a 58
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Neurology

Management of Post-tPA Intracerebral Hemorrhage

10/8/2015 Terrance McGovern, DO, MPH , Joseph Bove, DO
Management of Post-tPA Intracerebral Hemorrhage On your next shift, you find yourself evaluating a 58-year-old-male with acute onset of left upper and lower extremity weakness and a facial droop that