SALT LAKE CITY --The trauma center at University of Utah Health has been verified as a Level 1 Trauma Center by the Verification Review Committee (VRC), an ad hoc committee of the Committee on Trauma ...
Serious injury is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 1 and 44, and after cancer and the heart disease-stroke complex, injury results in the most years of life lost. Injury ...
This file photo shows an aerial view of Ballad Health’s Johnson City Medical Center. A new study shows since the consolidation of two Level 1 trauma centers to one at JCMC, the rate of deaths among ...
Six years ago, an expert panel made a strong suggestion to the White House: set up a national system to care for patients with traumatic injuries, which lead to about 30,000 deaths every year. “In the ...