Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Massachusetts, has given up its Level III trauma center designation, according to a report in The Daily News of Newburyport.
Hospital president Mark Goldstein said maintaining the Level III designation cost the facility $250,000 annually, according to the report. In contrast, he said the hospital’s ED receives only about 15 patients per year who require Level III trauma services.
For the entire report, read “Anna Jaques gives up its decades-long trauma certification”.
Recent research underscores the high cost of maintaining a Level III trauma center designation. According to a study of trauma centers in Georgia, the average readiness cost for a Level III program is $1,715,025 per year.
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Anna Jaques Hospital should NEVER be certified as a trauma center. I know someone who was kept in the Emergency room there. The doctors kept saying, “We have never seen lactic acid levels this high” over and over. They kept him there without knowing what to do for over 12 hours. They finally air-lifted him to Beth Israel in Boston where he died. This is reprehensible! A doctor ALWAYS has to put their ego aside when they don’t know what the cause of a condition is. The doctors at Anna Jaques think more of their egos than they think about their patients’ welfare. Horrible! P.S. I had awful treatment there, too, though it wasn’t a serious trauma situation, but I had fallen down the stairs after a hip replacement at NWH and was dismissed and ill-treated by the Emergency physician, if he can call himself a physician.