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by msla
1105 days ago
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https://www.ahd.com/free_profile/030068/Mount_Graham_Regiona... Mount Graham Regional Medical Center in Safford, AZ, is a Level IV trauma center. It has 25 staffed beds. Safford has a population of just over 10,000, and is approximately two hours to Tuscon by car. A Level IV trauma center provides initial evaluation, stabilization, diagnosis, and, perhaps, surgery and critical care, but what it mostly provides for serious cases is transportation to a bigger hospital, especially in the case of Mount Graham, which is listed as a short term acute care facility. This comes directly from combat medicine: Small facilities save lives, especially if they're geared up to send serious cases to bigger units. Level IV trauma centers are at the bottom of what the American College of Surgeons recognizes as a trauma center, but they're still a vital part of the infrastructure. https://www.traumasurvivorsnetwork.org/traumapedias/462 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_center |
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