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Contact Your Legislators to Support the National Trauma Center Stabilization Act (NTCSA) and Trauma Systems Planning Act (TSPA), as contained in Sections 3504 and 3505 of the Affordable Care Act.
Contact Your Federal Legislators to Support Funding for Trauma Programs! The American Trauma Society is joining with other organizations across the country to lobby Congress to fund important trauma and EMS programs authorized under the Public Health Service Act. These programs will provide necessary seed money to States to develop and enhance their trauma systems. Appropriate funding of these programs will also help prevent more trauma center closures and will pilot regionalized systems of emergency care to create greater efficiency of emergency medical care and transport.
Send a letter to your legislators today!
American Trauma Society supports the efforts of the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control's efforts to minimize the human devastation caused by automobile crashes, which are the leading cause of death for everyone in the United States ages 5-34.
Crashes take more than 30,000 lives a year, injure millions annually, and inflict pain and suffering on both victims and their friends and families. In addition to the devastation that they cause, the financial toll of crashes is staggering. A recent CDC analysis showed that, in one year, crash deaths in the United States cost more than $41 billion in medical and lost productivity costs alone.
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2011 to 2020 the Decade of Action for Road Safety, a period of enhanced focus on protecting people on the world’s roads. CDC is releasing new fact sheets highlighting state costs of deaths from motor vehicle crashes to coincide with the May 11 launch of the Decade of Action.
We invite you to join in the Decade of Action with the following steps:
Visit www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/statecosts to download your state’s fact sheet. You will find details about medical and work loss costs for your state.
Learn more about your state’s policies related to motor vehicle safety. You can use the evidence-based strategies that are recommended for your state to address any gaps.
We hope you will find our new state-based resources informative and helpful in your efforts to prevent crashes on your state’s roads. Working together, we can help keep more people safe on the road—every day.