The Emergency Department at Houston Northwest Medical Center is designated a Level III trauma facility by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Level III designation indicates that Houston Northwest Medical Center is staffed by physicians and health care professionals with advanced trauma training.

The 49-bed Emergency Department is equipped with two trauma rooms and 47 private treatment rooms to provide quality care for all patients, including heart attacks and strokes.

Our Services

Fast Track Unit
The Fast Track Unit is devoted to patients whose complaints are less urgent or life threatening, such as cuts that require stitches, sprains, sore throats and other minor illnesses. The goal of the Fast Track Unit is to provide care more quickly.

Fast Track is open 7 days a week from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m.

Child-friendly Emergency Rooms
Décor in each child-friendly emergency room was designed to be more nurturing and less frightening than a typical adult patient room. Decorations feature a palette of kid-friendly colors painted with fun designs on the walls that look like gum balls. Wall games were installed that allow children to move squiggle bars, spin wheels and slide objects all around.


Accredited Chest Pain Center
Houston Northwest Medical Center has a dedicated group of cardiovascular surgeons, cardiologists, nurses, and technicians that operate as a synchronized team designed to reduce the amount of time it takes to have that blood flow restored. Quick recognition followed by rapid response of the emergency team allows heart attack victims to obtain a diagnostic heart catheterization in a matter of minutes. Based on findings, life saving interventions are performed and blood flow is restored which reduces, or in some cases avoids, damage to heart muscle.

Houston Northwest Medical Center’s ability to quickly recognize and treat patients suffering from a heart attack has earned them the distinction of being recognized as a Cycle III with PCI Accredited Chest Pain Center. To receive accreditation, a hospital must undergo a site evaluation by reviewers from the Society of Chest Pain Center, who use a set of stringent criteria which were developed using recommendations from the American Heart Association, The American College of Cardiology and other organizations dedicated to reducing heart attack deaths.