St. Luke’s is a 532-bed hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was founded in 1884 as Cedar Rapids’ first hospital and is now one of two hospitals in Cedar Rapids, the other being Mercy Medical Center. St. Luke’s emergency department treats over 55,000 patients each year and the most cases of trauma in Iowa. This has led to a partnership with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for training future ER doctors. It is the community’s only hospital to provide open-heart surgery capabilities and the area’s only Level II Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. St. Lukes provides a Level II trauma center.