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Emergency Services

We provide the highest level of emergency care for adult and pediatric trauma, burns and other serious emergencies. Our board-certified emergency medicine physicians specialize in trauma care and work together with our trauma surgeons to handle any medical emergency.
As a Level I Trauma Center, a nationally accredited chest pain center and an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center, patients receive the highest level of care in our emergency department. This includes critically ill patients who may be experiencing:
Trauma care
Our highly trained trauma surgeons are on site 24/7. These critical care specialists are board-certified intensivists and provide the most advanced and comprehensive care to critically injured patients. As the region’s most experienced nationally verified Level I Trauma Center, we specialize in high-acuity patients with complex, multisystem injuries including:
- Burns – chemical, electrical, flame and scald
- Car accidents
- Falls
- Traumatic brain injury
- Gunshot or stab wounds
- Concussion
Entrance and parking
The emergency department is accessible from the main hospital location at 4000 Cambridge Street in Kansas City, Kansas. Parking is available in the P3 parking garage across from the heart center.

Emergency department visitor policy
Currently, no visitors are allowed in the ED waiting area with the exception of 1 parent or guardian. One visitor per patient is allowed in the room.
Anyone with a fever, cold- or flu-like symptoms or who is COVID-19 positive may not accompany a patient into our facilities.
Find our emergency department
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1. The University of Kansas Hospital
- Emergency Department
- 4000 Cambridge St., Ground Level
- Kansas City, KS 66160
Office Contact:
ED waiting time
We assess each patient's vital signs and condition within the first 5 minutes of arrival at the ED. Anytime you visit the ED, your wait to receive care depends on a number of factors.
- Your diagnosis and condition seriousness
- Patient volume
- Condition of other patients
To help reduce waiting time and speed up the process for noncritical events, we established a rapid evaluation, assessment and treatment area, or REACT.
Time-critical diagnosis
Nonemergency resources
If you have any doubts about your or a loved one's injury or condition, don't hesitate. Call 911 immediately.
When you need to see a doctor right away but don't require a trip to the emergency department, our urgent care offices offers convenient hours and locations. Nonemergency conditions may include:
- Respiratory difficulties associated with asthma and allergies
- Sore throats
- Coughs
- Fever
- Rashes
- Minor injuries
- Headaches
- Vomiting
- Flu-like symptoms
Poison Control Center
Our Poison Control Center provides information on all types of poison, includes poisonous chemicals, plants and snakes. We're available 24/7 from anywhere in the state of Kansas and throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area. Call our hotline at 800-222-1222.

Advanced trauma care saves lives
A motorcycle accident left Jake Moore clinging to life. The trauma care, orthopedics and neurosciences specialists at the region's most experienced Level I Trauma Center collaborated to help Jake make a dramatic recovery.
Read Jake's story

Still the best
Our hospital continues to rank as the best in Kansas City and in Kansas according to U.S. News & World Report.

Magnet-recognized
The University of Kansas Hospital has been designated a Magnet® facility by the American Nurses Credentialing Center since 2006. 
Respect for all people
Named a leader in LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality by the Human Rights Campaign.