Seven Days a Week. 24 Hours a Day.
Aiken-area residents rely on the Emergency Department (ED) at Aiken Regional for their urgent health needs. The nurses, staff and board-certified emergency physicians here treat approximately 48,000 patients a year.

Our goal is to provide high-quality, compassionate treatment as quickly as possible. Unless you arrive with a life-threatening injury or illness, a triage nurse will assess your condition and set a schedule based on ED patients' needs.

Heart Attack Care—Minutes Mean Muscle
Every minute a patient's heart is deprived of blood increases the amount of heart muscle affected. That's why our staff is highly trained, responsive and available around the clock to provide you with prompt and effective heart attack care. Aiken Regional is involved in quality initiatives focused on speeding treatment of heart attack patients.

We are part of the Door-to-Balloon Alliance (D2B), a national network of hospitals focused on reducing the amount of time from when a heart attack patient enters the hospital door to when the patient receives artery-clearing treatment.

EMS responders can now transmit a patient's EKG directly to the emergency department while en route to the hospital, where a physician can study it and determine whether the heart attack team should be activated.