Norton Children's Hospital (NCH)

Norton Children's Hospital is a full-service, comprehensive, free-standing children's hospital that allows residents to diagnose, treat and manage pediatric patients with a wide variety of diseases and severity of illness. The site is the primary training site for pediatric and multiple subspecialty programs. The hospital has a high volume of patients with a wide breadth of disease processes and a wide range of patient acuity.

This site is an acute care hospital for children, which has a 4-bed epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) with an epilepsy surgery program and facilities for real-time EEG monitoring in inpatient floor and ICU beds, intracranial EEG monitoring, and EEG/EP lab. It contains several conference rooms for weekly epilepsy surgery

conferences, didactics, and weekly journal clubs. The neurodiagnostic lab at NCH contains an EEG reading room and a lounge for residents, fellows, and faculty. It contains several office/workstations with EEG reading capacity for faculty and fellows.

Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital

Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital is a full-service, 373-bed community hospital offering inpatient and outpatient medical/surgical care, full diagnostic services, and 24-hour emergency care for men, women, and children. The hospital specializes in comprehensive cancer prevention, detection, and treatment; orthopedics and bone health; pelvic health services; migraine treatment; breast health diagnostics; and surgical weight loss services. For children, the hospital offers pediatric surgery, inpatient care including a 44-bed Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a sleep center, a rehabilitation center, and pediatric emergency services, plus specialized care for pediatric urology and gynecology patients. Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital holds The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval as a certified Acute Stroke Ready Hospital, meeting the standard to support better outcomes for stroke care. Through Norton Women’s Care, the hospital offers general and high-risk obstetric and gynecologic care, as well as a surgical unit with private rooms and specialized nursing care just for women. Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital is a designated AAGL Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology TM as well as an American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Center of Excellence. The hospital has been a primary provider of obstetrical services in Kentucky for a number of years, delivering more than 5,000 babies annually since 2003.

This site is an acute care hospital for children. It contains an inpatient EMU (2 beds) and EEG/EP lab. This is a satellite clinical site. The EEGs performed in this hospital will be read remotely by the fellow and faculty while on NCH EMU or outpatient rotation. The fellow or faculty will not go to this hospital physically.

Novak Center

Novak Center site is the location of the Neurology Department outpatient practices for the Child Neurology division. In addition to several patient exam rooms, it contains an EEG laboratory. It contains a lounge for faculty, fellows, and resident. It contains several workstations with remote EEG reading capacity and the ability to access medical charts. It contains a conference room for Grand Rounds, resident/fellow, and faculty meetings. 

University of Louisville Hospital 

As the academic hospital at the heart of the Louisville metro area, UofL Hospital is quite literally at the center of the latest developments in patient care. ULH is a level-one trauma center and includes a nationally accredited stroke center and two outpatient buildings, including the UofL Health - Chestnut Street Outpatient Center. More than 12,000 surgery procedures are completed at ULH annually including minimally invasive surgeries utilizing the da Vinci Robotic Surgery system. ULH is a Pinwheel Sponsor of the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care, which demonstrates the hospital’s commitment to redefining the relationships between providers, patients, and families. Traditionally viewed as a ‘safety net’ hospital in our community, this hospital sees a unique mixture of local residents of our community (many of whom come from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds) and patients who have been referred or transferred from all over the region in order to receive services not available elsewhere. Cost-consciousness is also taught at this site.

This site is an acute care hospital that has a 5-bed EMU and facilities for real-time continuous EEGs (c-EEG) in ICU beds, cEEG with download to servers every 24 hours in non-ICU beds, NIOM, intracranial EEG monitoring, and Wada testing. It contains several workstations with EEG reading capacity and the ability to access medical charts. The University of Louisville Hospital is affiliated with Chestnut Street Outpatient Center (CSOC) which is the location of the Neurology Department outpatient practices for the Epilepsy division. In addition to patient exam rooms and faculty offices, it contains an EEG laboratory. Ambulatory EEG monitoring is performed.

The fellow will read all EEGs (including c-EEG or routine EEGs) performed at Jewish Hospital remotely as well while on adult EEG rotation at the University of Louisville Hospital. They will be reading EEGs from multiple participating sites to increase exposure to a variety of different adult pathologies.

Jewish Hospital 

UofL Health - Jewish Hospital (formerly KentuckyOne Health - Jewish Hospital) opened in 1905 with a mission to provide all patients with the highest quality care and a strong emphasis on research and education. Today, UofL Health - Jewish Hospital is a 462-bed, internationally renowned, high-tech tertiary referral center located in downtown Louisville, developing leading-edge advancements in a vast number of specialties and services. Many of the hospital’s clinical programs have achieved national rankings for excellence. Noted for numerous medical firsts in Kentucky, the nation, and the world.

UofL Health - Jewish Hospital is the site of the nation's first four-hand transplants and the world's first and second successful AbioCor™ Implantable Replacement Heart transplant. The hospital is federally designated to perform all five solid organ transplants - heart, lung, liver, kidney, and pancreas.

 This site is an acute care hospital with facilities for EEG and continuous EEG (aka long-term EEG). The fellow will read all EEGs (including c-EEG or routine EEGs) performed at Jewish Hospital remotely while on adult EEG rotation at the University of Louisville Hospital. The fellow will not go to this hospital physically.

They will be reading EEGs from multiple participating sites to increase exposure to a variety of different adult pathologies.