St. Vincent's Medical Center (SVMC) is a Catholic hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It was founded in 1903 by the Daughters of Charity. St. Vincent's Medical Center continues its mission of carrying on the work of the Daughters of Charity and their commitment to serving the sick and poor of Bridgeport.
St. Vincent's Medical Center is a licensed 473-bed community teaching and referral hospital with a Level II trauma center, cancer center, and a 76-bed inpatient psychiatric facility. The Medical Center offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient services with regional centers of excellence in cardiology, surgery, cancer care, orthopedics, family birthing, behavioral health, and an array of specialized services.
The Hartford Healthcare Cancer Center and Elizabeth M. Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care provide services that encompass the full spectrum of cancer care and include community outreach, screening and prevention, diagnostic services, surgical and medical oncology, radiation therapy, interventional oncology, clinical trials, dedicated inpatient and outpatient cancer units, palliative care, pain management, integrative oncology, support services, patient and provider education, and survivorship. The multispecialty tumor board is held weekly with professional consultants from Oncology, General Surgery, Pathology, Primary Care, Nuclear Medicine, and Diagnostic/Interventional Radiology departments.
The Michael J. Daly Center for Emergency and Trauma Care hold 60 beds, includes specialized trauma and critical care suites, a "Fast Track" area for minor case needs, dedicated OB/GYN rooms, pediatric area, expanded Behavioral Health and Psychiatric area with a focus on privacy and safety. A CT scanner, ultrasound and X-ray equipment are located in the ED to expedite diagnosis and treatment of emergency room patients and there is also a permanent decontamination facility for hazardous spills.
St. Vincent's Medical Center has a Stroke Center that's open 24 hours a day. The stroke center is staffed by a team of experts, including neurologists, neurosurgeons, and emergency medicine doctors. The center offers neuro interventional procedures, rehabilitation, and aftercare support services.
In addition to Diagnostic Radiology, the hospital also offers ACGME-accredited residency training in Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Anesthesiology, and Rural Family Medicine in collaboration with Quinnipiac University.
Program Aims
We the faculty in the radiology department at St. Vincent's Medical Center in conjunction with the hospital will provide all necessary resources for the training and education of our residents through teaching and mentoring to appropriately develop the next generation of radiologists. In doing this we will provide timely and compassionate care to a highly diverse community. Program Aims:
- Provide excellent teaching, instruction, and mentorship to our trainees so that they become capable, well-rounded, and ultimately board-certified through repeated exposure to both simple and complex patient pathology using different imaging modalities on a variety of rotations.
- Provide an excellent educational learning environment with opportunities to grow professionally and as a radiologist under a framework of team-centered patient care.
- Provide subspecialty exposure so that residents can make an informed decision should they choose to continue their training in a fellowship.
- We differentiate ourselves as a hybrid program in which residents also have the ability to observe a private practice radiology group.
Residents are exposed to patients with a wide range of medical needs. Both the inpatient and outpatient populations reflect the health challenges found in diverse populations in the Greater Bridgeport area.
State-of-the-art facilities
St. Vincent’s Radiology Department is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. This includes 3 diagnostic CT scanners, a dedicated 4-slice CT unit for the radiation oncology service, a 1.5 Tesla MRI unit, routine diagnostic rooms, fluoroscopic rooms with cine capabilities, all-digital modern angiographic suite, ultrasound and nuclear medicine units with PET/CT and SPECT/CT capabilities. There is digital mammography, which includes tomosynthesis, all digital stereotactic breast biopsy systems, and weekly MRI-guided breast biopsies.
Our radiology information system (RIS) maintains all orders, results, and statistics for the entire department and this information system is interfaced with the hospital information system for improved patient care. Filmless images from the PACS systems can be viewed not only in the Radiology Department but also in other related clinical and educational areas in the hospital.
Conditions we treat
The department averages more than 130,000 examinations annually, including approximately 60,000 diagnostic examinations, 2,000 nuclear medicine studies, 10,000 ultrasound studies, 30,0000 computerized tomographic scans, and 2500 Interventional procedures that include drainages, arthrography, myelography, cholangiography, vascular angioplasties, endovascular stenting, embolization procedures, and radiofrequency ablation. We perform a wide range of MRI exams including Prostate MRIs, which are used for fusion biopsies by Urologists, and MRI-guided breast biopsies.