Our Burn Care service manages the Suffolk County Volunteer Firefighters Burn Center of University Hospital —
The surgical and medical staff provide the most sophisticated care to both adults and children with major burns. The Burn Center is designed and equipped to meet the special needs of burn patients, and is certified by the American Burn Association.
featuring experts from our Burn Center
Suffolk County Volunteer Firefighters Burn Center
101 Nicolls Road
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Surgical Care Center
37 Research Way
East Setauket, NY 11733
About The Burn Center
Equipped with light, spacious private rooms that are able to accommodate overnight visitors who wish to stay with their loved ones. In addition to private rooms, the Burn Center includes an expanded debridement and bandaging area, larger treatment rooms, and a more comfortable healing environment for patients. All advance the quality of burn care at Stony Brook.
The key to managing any type of burn, but particularly the more severe kind, is to get appropriate treatment as quickly as possible. That means not only going to a facility with the advanced expertise, protocols, and equipment, but also one that has these capabilities 24/7. The Burn Center of University Hospital has long been the go-to facility in Suffolk County.
As the designated burn care facility for the residents of Suffolk County, the Burn Center coordinates burn services throughout the county, and provides a resource for training and research in Burn Care. It also serves as a resource to neighboring community-based hospitals.
In addition to initial assessment and ongoing intensive and surgical care, the Burn Center team provides the physical and emotional supports that are an important part of the total rehabilitation of burn patients.
The Burn Center is the first in Suffolk County to use SCAAR FX laser technology to treat severe burn scars.
Learn more from our expert, Steven Sandoval, MD: What You Should Know About Burn Care
Commitment to Community
Through its commitment to the local community, the Burn Center gained the enthusiastic backing of Suffolk's volunteer firefighters, who in 1986 created the Suffolk County Volunteer Firefighters Burn Center Fund to help support special clinical and research initiatives. The Burn Center was renamed in 2013 in honor of their support of it.
One early initiative supported by the Fund led to the creation of our novel Living Skin Bank, which provides a unique clinical resource for wound dressings that benefit our patients. The Fund has done much more over the years, and it demonstrates the community's support of the Burn Center at Stony Brook.
At our annual Burn Center Recognition Day, Stony Brook Medicine staff gather with volunteer firefighters, EMS personnel, and local residents to honor the partnership between the Burn Center and the Suffolk County Volunteer Firefighters Burn Center Fund.
Anthony
Former patient Anthony Musemeci shares what it's like to be treated at the Suffolk County Volunteer Firefighters Burn Center.
Lorraine
Former patient Lorraine Fuchs shares what it's like to be treated at the Suffolk County Volunteer Firefighters Burn Center.