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The list below shows the hospital name, city and state location, number of beds in the hospital, adult trauma level certification, and pediatric trauma level certification: [1] Hospital City
A Level I trauma center provides the highest level of surgical care to trauma patients. Being treated at a Level I trauma center can reduce mortality by 25% compared to a non-trauma center. [17] It has a full range of specialists and equipment available 24 hours a day [18] and admits a minimum required annual volume of severely injured patients.
Cohorts of similar verified trauma centers had differences in risk-adjusted mortality rates with a large amount of variance between low-outlier and high-outlier trauma centers. The aggregate group had a relative risk-mortality of 3.3, while the single-system trauma cohort had a mortality 5.9 times higher for high-outlier facilities.
Nov. 30—Medical Center Hospital has been reverified as a Level III Trauma Center by the Verification Review Committee, an ad hoc committee of the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American ...
The standards for Level 1 trauma centers are designated by the Department of State Health Services and verified by the American College of Surgeons. There are 22 in the state.
UCLA Medical Center has research centers covering nearly all major specialties of medicine as well as dentistry and ophthalmology, and is the primary teaching hospital for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The hospital's emergency department is certified as a level I trauma center for adults and pediatrics.
In the United States, the licensing of prehospital emergency medical providers and oversight of emergency medical services are governed at the state level. Each state is free to add or subtract levels as each state sees fit.
The Arizona Department of Health Services has a list of "Arizona State Designated Trauma Centers" on their website. This list includes several hospitals that appear to be state-certified as Level I trauma centers, but the ACS website classifies the level of some of these trauma centers differently than the state. For example, the Abrazo West ...