Ascension Via Christi Emergency Department in Pittsburg

By staying home when you or a loved one is ill and washing your hands regularly, you can help keep yourself and your children healthy.

If you think your child has RSV or bronchiolitis, it is important to keep your child hydrated and monitor for fever or shortness of breath. Contact your child’s doctor, who can test for RSV and provide recommendations to keep your child safe at home. If your child’s health situation is serious or life-threatening, go to the nearest ER or call 911.

Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, may appear like a bad cold to adults. For infants or young children, RSV can cause bronchiolitis -- a virus which causes swelling and an increase in mucus in the airway. This can cause difficulty breathing through their nose and eventually dehydration due to difficulty latching to the breast or bottle for infants. Other symptoms of RSV may include a fever or a very wet sounding cough, which can turn into coughing fits. Those coughing fits can cause a child to gag and potentially vomit.

We are following local and state government and health department guidelines for COVID-19 vaccine distribution. For the first doses of vaccine available, front-line healthcare workers have been prioritized. As vaccine appointments are made available in your community, additional information will be shared. Answers to frequently asked questions can be found on our website at ascension.org.

Care shouldn’t be delayed for a child who is experiencing severe mental distress. If your child is experiencing a mental health crisis, take them directly to the emergency room or call 911. ERs at Ascension hospitals, including at our children’s hospitals, are open 24/7, offering compassionate care for urgent mental health crisis intervention.

Quickly recognizing the signs that a loved one is in severe mental distress is the first step in helping them get the care they need to return to a more hopeful and stable state of mind. According to the CDC, some warning signs to look out for, include: - Feeling like a burden - Being isolated - Increased anxiety - Feeling trapped or in unbearable pain - Increased substance use - Looking for a way to access lethal means - Increased anger or rage - Extreme mood swings - Expressing hopelessness - Sleeping too little or too much - Talking or posting about wanting to die - Making plans for suicide A person in severe mental distress should go directly to the emergency room or call 911. ERs at Ascension [ministry] hospitals are open 24/7, offering compassionate care for urgent mental health crisis intervention. Don’t delay getting the care you need.

If someone is experiencing severe mental distress, care shouldn’t be delayed. A person experiencing a mental health crisis should go directly to the emergency room or call 911. ERs at Ascension [ministry] hospitals are open 24/7, offering compassionate care for urgent mental health crisis intervention. And rest assured that safety precautions are in place to help protect patients and families. Don’t delay getting the care you need. Because we are more than emergency care, we can connect you and your loved ones to the follow-up care that’s right - both in-person and virtual visits.

If someone is experiencing severe mental distress, care shouldn’t be delayed. A person experiencing a mental health crisis should go directly to the emergency room or call 911. ERs at Ascension [ministry] hospitals are open 24/7, offering compassionate care for urgent mental health crisis intervention. And rest assured that safety precautions are in place to help protect patients and families. Don’t delay getting the care you need.

Our freestanding ERs offer the same compassionate, high-quality care as our hospital-based emergency rooms, including onsite lab and imaging and treatment. These emergency rooms are not physically attached to a hospital. This means they help offer more access to emergency care, closer to home in our communities. We can also connect patients to our broader network of advanced specialists and primary care doctors - helping patients get personalized follow-up care at the nearest Ascension location.

Our freestanding ERs provide comprehensive full-service emergency care in a location that is not attached to a hospital. They offer the same compassionate, high-quality care as our hospital-based emergency rooms, including onsite lab and imaging and treatment. This is the first stop for major or life-threatening illness or injury and we are open 24/7. Don’t delay getting the care you need.

Freestanding ERs provide comprehensive full-service emergency care - not attached to a hospital whereas our hospital ERs provide that same comprehensive emergency care within the walls of our hospitals. Both offer compassionate, high-quality care, including onsite lab and imaging and treatment. Both types of ERs can serve as the first stop for serious illness or injury, such as shortness of breath, chest pain, open fractures or severe bleeding.

Parents or caregivers may be asked to discuss their child’s immunization history and any conditions or chronic illnesses your child may have. If your child has a pediatrician, it is helpful to have that information on hand if care teams have any specific questions about your child’s medical history. And rest assured - if you are unable to provide this information our care teams will still deliver the comprehensive, family-centered care your child needs. Don’t delay getting the care your child needs.

Taking your child to the emergency room is stressful, so we’ve gone to great lengths to make our facilities as child-friendly as possible. ERs at our children’s hospitals offer comprehensive and family-centered care to kids 24/7 and are ready for any emergency, simple to complex. Because children's medical needs are vastly different from those of adults, we have advanced equipment especially designed for diagnosing and treating medical emergencies in kids, from infants to adolescents up to 18 years of age. ERs at our children’s hospitals are able to offer lab tests and X-rays - keeping the care your child needs in one place.

Pediatric ERs offer specialized ER care for children age 18 and younger. Regular ERs typically deliver care for patients of all ages, but they can also treat children. Because children's medical needs are vastly different from those of adults, ERs at our children’s hospitals have advanced equipment especially designed for diagnosing and treating medical emergencies in kids, from infants to adolescents up to 18 years of age.

Care teams at ERs located at Ascension hospitals work to quickly understand and treat your health needs. We check in with you frequently and deliver the care that is right for you.

We have fully staffed emergency rooms to take care of your needs and to help reduce the time from door to doctor.

ERs at Ascension hospitals offer compassionate, high-quality care, including onsite lab and imaging and treatment for major or life-threatening illness or injury. Because we’re more than emergency care, when receiving emergency care at the ERs within our hospitals we can connect you to our network of specialists for follow-up care.

Because we’re more than emergency care, we connect you to the follow-up care that’s right for you. We have a large network of specialists and a broad range of care options, so you can find a doctor that meets your needs.

ERs at Ascension hospitals are ready to provide the care patients need in one place. Lab and imaging are available onsite.

When you need care more immediately and your regular doctor isn’t available, you may be trying to decide between urgent care or an emergency room. For life-threatening emergencies and serious illness or injury, such as shortness of breath, chest pain, open fractures or severe bleeding, go to an emergency room. When you need care for minor illness or injury, such as allergies, fevers, cuts without severe bleeding that may need stitches or a severe sore throat, and your doctor isn’t available, seek urgent care. If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, go directly to the ER or dial 9-1-1. Don’t delay getting the care you need.

If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, go directly to the ER or dial 9-1-1. Signs or symptoms of an acute emergency may include: shortness of breath, chest pain, face drooping or arm weakness, open fractures, severe bleeding, head injury or other major trauma, numbness, loss of consciousness/fainting, or severe abdominal pain.