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		Trauma deaths decline at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center after King-Drew Medical Center's closure 10/22/2008 While the 2005 closure of King-Drew Medical Center's Level 1 trauma unit in Los Angeles County caused a 54 percent increase in trauma patients at nearby Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, the deaths among those patients actually declined, according to a new study published in this month's The American Surgeon. A ... Read More

		Race and insurance status associated with death from trauma 10/20/2008 African American and Hispanic patients are more likely to die following trauma than white patients, and uninsured patients have a higher death risk when compared with those who have health insurance, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Health ... Read More

		UPMC Helps To Create New Trauma Service In Qatar 12/12/2007 The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Hamad Medical Corp. (HMC) today announced the creation of a trauma service at Hamad General Hospital to better serve the citizens and residents of Qatar, located in the Persian Gulf. As part of a contract announced in June 2006 to provide ... Read More

		A Nation Divided Over Health Care? Not So Fast 10/03/2007 Americans may be sharply divided in their views on many aspects of health care in the United States, but they are in strong agreement when it comes to one of the most important but overlooked elements -- a nationwide trauma system. According to results of the American College of Surgeons' (ACS) new ... Read More

		President Bush Signs Bill to Improve U.S. Trauma Systems 05/04/2007 President George W. Bush yesterday signed into law the Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 2007 (H.R. 727) reauthorizing funding for the United States trauma systems until the year 2012. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) strongly supports the legislation (now Public Law 110-23), ... Read More

		Are trauma centers prepared for mass-casualty disasters? 10/20/2006 Natural and manmade disasters, including the terrorist attacks of Sept.11, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina, have raised concerns about the capacity of trauma centers to absorb large numbers of patients from mass-casualty events. With many trauma centers having a patient census of 95 percent, can Americans ... Read More

		New statewide trauma system to help ensure prompt care for seriously injured Minnesotans 07/28/2006 Trauma?or serious injury?claims an average of 2,500 lives every year in Minnesota. It is the leading cause of death for Minnesotans ages 1 to 44 and the third leading cause of death for all age groups. Minnesota has taken a big step toward creating a statewide trauma system to help ensure that Minnesotans ... Read More

		Gov. Rounds (SD) announces development of Trauma System 07/26/2006 Gov. Mike Rounds today announced the establishment of a trauma system planning team to coordinate services throughout South Dakota. The Departments of Health and Public Safety have worked with healthcare facilities statewide to establish the Trauma Systems Development Steering Committee. The ... Read More

		Nearly 25% of Trauma Centers Shut Down Services Due to Lack of Physicians Available to Provide On-Call Coverage 07/10/2006 Sullivan, Cotter and Associates, Inc. has published its second annual survey of physician on-call pay rates and practices, the 2006 Physician On-call Pay Survey Report. A total of 109 healthcare organizations from across the U.S. participated in the survey. Overall, 78% of the survey participants provide ... Read More

		ACS Releases Comprehensive Report on Emergency Care Crisis 06/23/2006 This week, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) released a comprehensive report, "A Growing Crisis in Patient Access to Emergency Surgical Care," which outlines in depth the serious problems surgeons and their patients are facing due to the virtual collapse of the nation's emergency care system. The ... Read More