University Medical Center in Lubbock, Tex., recently opened a special unit for older trauma patients, according to a KCBD report. The unit centralizes geriatric trauma patients in a dedicated floor to facilitate management of their unique trauma risks. Opened in March, the new unit is one of the first geriatric trauma units in the nation.…
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Wraparound Project, a violence prevention program founded by trauma surgeon Rochelle Dicker, MD, was profiled in a recent KPIX report. Dicker founded the program in 2002 to address the risk factors that lead to repeat violence. The program focuses on young trauma patients who are victims of violent injury. Case managers leverage this critical moment…
Gerard Doherty, MD, and Peter Burke, MD, FACS, marked the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing with an opinion piece in the Boston Globe. Doherty is surgeon-in-chief and Burke is the chief of trauma services at Boston Medical Center. The editorial commends the readiness of the Boston-area trauma community—which includes five Level I trauma…
Can geographic information system (GIS) technology help determine the fastest and most cost-effective transport method for patients with traumatic injuries? Researchers at the University of Cincinnati and the Maryland Shock Trauma Center recently analyzed a decade of trauma air transports in five Maryland counties. The researchers used GIS technology to estimate air versus ambulance transport…
In a recent letter to CMS, the Trauma Center Association of America proposed an episode-based payment model for the treatment of traumatic injury. Under the proposal, the episode of care would begin with the patient’s presentation at a trauma center and end with inpatient admission or outpatient discharge. Payment would be based on trauma center…
The ACS has verified Kootenai Health in Coeur d’Alene as a Level III trauma center. The hospital serves northern Idaho, eastern Washington and Montana. Read More
The ACS has verified Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence as a Level I pediatric trauma center. Hasbro Children’s is the pediatric division of Rhode Island Hospital, and it was previously included as a “pediatric commitment” within the overall trauma verification. The two hospitals are the only Level I trauma centers in Rhode Island. Read More
Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak was recently reverified by the ACS as an adult Level I trauma center. In addition, Beaumont Children’s Hospital (a children’s medical center within Beaumont Hospital) was newly verified as a pediatric Level II trauma center. Read More
Chandler Regional Medical Center has received provisional designation as a Level I trauma center from the Arizona Department of Health Services. The suburban Phoenix hospital announced it will seek Level II verification from the ACS. Read More
A memoir by Peter Rhee, MD, medical director of the UMC Trauma Center at the University of Arizona, will be published this June, according to the Arizona Daily Star. In Trauma Red: The Making of a Surgeon in War and in America’s Cities, Dr. Rhee recounts efforts to build southern Arizona’s only Level I trauma…