Lucille Packard

Pediatric and obstetric patients are at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, a separate hospital connected to Stanford. It's a bit confusing. When transferring a patient from one side to another (for example, from a Stanford ICU to the LPCH post-partum ward), we actually discharge the patient from one acute care hospital and admit them to the other, even though the wards are next to each other. Physicians can have rights at one hospital but not the other. The pharmacies are completely separate, and often we have shortages of a drug at Stanford that is available at Lucille Packard. It's very strange, and I'm not sure I fully understand the reason unless it is historic in nature. For residents, it can be a bit frustrating since the electronic medical record, protocols, and systems are different, yet some of us see patients in both places.