Block Island Medical Center cares for patients with urgent and emergent medical and trauma needs. Providers are experienced in handling medical emergencies including stroke, heart attack, accidents and trauma and serious or life-threatening infections. Provides state of the art emergency care necessary to stabilize patients in life threatening conditions quickly, and to transfer them safely by air or sea to a partner tertiary care facility on the mainland. Doctors and nurses are equally skilled at managing acute traumatic injuries and performing emergent procedures such as wound repair, fracture care, or spinal immobilization. X-ray services on site. In the case of severe illness or injury, providers are experts in assisted ventilation & intubation and advanced cardiac & traumatic life support.