Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital is a hospital in the city of Santa Barbara, California. It is owned and operated by Cottage Health Systems.

It is the only Level II trauma center between Los Angeles (south) and the Bay Area (north) on coastal California. Santa Barbara Cottage's location is approximately 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles and approximately 300 miles south of the Bay Area.

Cottage hospital is a full-service hospital, primarily serving the diverse population of Santa Barbara county. There are two other satellite hospitals within the Cottage Health Care system, Santa Ynez Cottage Hospital and Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital. The hospital has regular medical-surgical beds as well as a CCU and an ICU.

There are full gamut of medical services available, including a neonatal intensive care unit. The standard of care in the community is generally that of cardiac cathaterization (not thrombolytics) for heart attacks requiring intervention.

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital is a training institution with resident physicians in internal medicine, surgery and radiology. Medical students also can do rotations at Cottage.