Today a 510-bed acute care teaching hospital and trauma center, the largest of its kind between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, the hospital was founded in 1888 by 50 women determined to provide a healthcare facility for the growing community of Santa Barbara.		Find us on Facebook!
Now with annual admissions of more than 18,000 patients, 43,800 emergency department visits, and 2,300 births, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital is renowned for the breadth of its services:  comprehensive maternal-child services; Cottage Children's Hospital; heart and vascular, neurosurgical, and oncology programs; advanced surgical facilities and minimally-invasive robotic equipment; level II trauma center and emergency services; Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital; psychiatric and chemical dependency programs and Cottage Residential Center; and outpatient services that include the Cottage Center for Advanced Imaging, outpatient surgery, and the MacDougall Eye Center.   Its medical staff of more than 650 physicians includes specialists in all major clinical areas, many of whom are involved in the training and education of new physicians in the hospital’s internal medicine, general surgery and radiology residency programs.
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 2012 Fact Sheet Originally founded 1888 Type of institution   510-bed acute-care teaching hospital Admissions   18,144 Days of inpatient care   83,234 ED visits   43,811 Annual births   2,300 Operating expenses   $505.9 million Employees (FTEs)   2,274       Of note     • Comprehensive scope of adult and pediatric services •    Cottage Children's Hospital •    Dedicated adult oncology floor •    Full array of neurosurgical and neuroendovascular capabilities •    Comprehensive Heart and Vascular Center, including interventional cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, cath labs, electrophysiology lab •    Filmless radiography services •    Cottage Center for Advanced Imaging (outpatient)  •    Outpatient surgery •    Stewart & Louisa MacDougall Eye Center •    Inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services (Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital) •    Psychiatric and chemical dependency programs •    Level II Trauma Center •    Teaching hospital offering residency programs in internal medicine, general surgery, radiology 021413