When a trauma patient dies before providers have a chance to identify major injuries, the patient’s Injury Severity Scores (ISS) will often be inaccurate. Across a trauma patient population, the overall result is skewed mortality data. At Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center, a Level I trauma center in Charlotte, North Carolina, trauma program leaders worked…
Author: Trauma News
Henry Ford Providence Southfield Hospital in Southfield, Michigan, lost its Level II trauma center designation in July. The designation loss was tied to shortfalls in program documentation identified during an American College of Surgeons (ACS) site visit. Adnan Munkarah, MD, president of clinical enterprise and chief physician executive for Henry Ford Health, said the designation…
Sigma Nursing (Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing) is now offering a free continuing education program designed to equip nurses with the tools they need to prepare for, respond to and recover from disaster situations. Disaster to Recovery: Prioritizing Nurse Wellbeing is an evidence-based course open to all nurses. Its goal is to give…
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma has just released Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient: Level IV Trauma Center Standards (2026). According to the ACS, the goals of the new standards are to help Level IV trauma centers assess their capabilities, identify gaps in care, strengthen their performance improvement efforts,…
We continued Performance Improvement Month at Trauma System News on June 4 with a Trauma Learning Break featuring two experts on trauma quality and PI. In the first half of this session, Angie Chisolm of Optimal Healthcare Advisors presented “PDSA Workshop for Trauma PI Professionals”. During this 30-minute workshop, Angie: Reviews the basics of the…
June 2026 is Performance Improvement Month at Trauma System News, and we kicked it off on June 2 with a Trauma Learning Break featuring two experts on trauma quality and PI. In the first half of this session, Wendy Erickson of KJ Trauma Consulting presented “Optimizing Trauma Registry Data for Trauma PI”. During this 30-minute…
June is “Performance Improvement Month” at Trauma System News, and we are kicking it off with two new webinars for everyone involved in trauma PI. Each 1-hour “Trauma Learning Break” webinar combines a 30-minute workshop on a key issue in trauma performance improvement with a 30-minute Q&A session featuring a recognized expert in trauma PI…
Registration is now open for the 2026 Metrolina Trauma Symposium, which will take place May 14-15, 2026, at the Harris Conference Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. This conference is designed for every member of the trauma healthcare team — prehospital EMTs and paramedics, flight teams, critical care transport teams, nurses, respiratory therapists, NPs and PAs,…
March 19 is Certified Nurses Day, and the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) is celebrating it as a day to honor the specialty certified nurses who provide care across the emergency spectrum. “Certified Nurses Day celebrates nurses who invest in themselves to deliver the highest level of patient care,” said Janie Schumaker, MBA,…
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (TCRN) certification program of the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN). In honor of this milestone, the BCEN is offering a 10% discount on initial TCRN certification and renewals throughout the month of February 2026 and on TCRN renewals through April 2026. “A…