Emergency Services
CI Health’s Emergency Department evaluates and treats nearly 2,500 cases a year. The emergency room is staffed 24/7 with UC Irvine Emergency Medicine Physician and supported by the medical center’s laboratory and diagnostic imaging departments to meet the acute medical needs of Catalina Island’s residents and visitors. With the use of patient satisfaction surveys, patients consistently rank CI Health’s emergency services as one of the best in the nation.
University of California Irvine
Catalina Island Health and the University of California Irvine School of Medicine work together to run the emergency department at CI Health. With the help of UC Irvine’s Health emergency medicine specialists, we have been able to expand patient care and improve satisfaction by expanding our services and increasing the number of patients we can care for while allowing second and third-year residents a chance to hone their skills, make positive connections with patients and learn the art of medicine.
Isabel M. Algaze, MD
Medical Director, CI Health Emergency Department
Dr. Algaze is a board-certified UCI Health emergency medicine physician. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at UPR and completed a subspecialty fellowship in Wilderness Medicine from Harvard Medical School.
Her clinical and research interests include wilderness medicine, hyperbaric medicine, dive medicine, expedition medicine, global medicine and humanitarian aid. Dr. Algaze established and developed the curriculum for the new UC Irvine Health Wilderness Medicine fellowship. She is now serving as the Medical Director of Catalina Island Health Emergency Department – a rural, critical assess, free standing emergency department, on an island with 4,500 residents and an excess of a 1 million tourists. Her goal is to continue to provide quality care to her patients and to expand knowledge in the fields of emergency and wilderness medicine.