Level I Trauma Center

Services
Patients at Bronson's Level I Trauma Center have immediate access to:

• coordinated response from a variety of specialty medical staff.
  
• trauma surgeons and emergency medicine doctors who are always in the hospital.
  
• trauma/neurological care for severely injured patients.
  
• pediatric surgeons 24 hours a day.
  
• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for the special needs of children due to serious illness or injury.
  
• operating rooms equipped and ready at all times.
  
• in-hospital anesthesiologists.
  
• orthopedic and neurosurgeons on-site.
• A Regional Burn and Wound Center in the Trauma Center.

What is Trauma?
Trauma is any serious injury caused by an external force, such as a motor vehicle crash, falls, violence, sports- or recreational-related injuries and job-related injuries. Trauma is the leading cause of death for Americans under age 45 and the No. 1 cause of disability for all age groups.

Education
Being a Level I hospital means being a leader in injury prevention, public education and research. Bronson works with more than 30 organizations to help educate people about safety and injury prevention. Bronson's trauma education programs reached almost 15,000 people in 2007, including presentations on child passenger safety, teen driving and fall prevention. Bronson also works with local and regional emergency medical response (EMS) agencies to provide education and training for first responders to injuries.

Bronson First Patient Referral Service
1-800-BRONSON or 1-800-276-6766

• Patients can be transferred from another location with one phone call from a physician. A registered nurse handles all important information while a medical team waits for the patient's arrival.
  
• Six registered nurses work with Bronson First Patient Referral Service. Together they have more than 100 years of nursing experience.

Quality
What does it mean to be a Level I Trauma Center?  A Level I Trauma Center is required to:

• have prompt availability of specialists in trauma surgery, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, surgical critical care, rehabilitation medicine and emergency medicine to adequately respond to and care for the various forms of trauma. In addition, specialists in anesthesiology, radiology, plastic surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery and internal medicine also need to be readily available.
  
• have an operating room immediately available.
  
• conduct research.
• provide injury prevention programs in the community.
  
• provide professional education for physicians, nurses, emergency medical services personnel and physician liaisons.
  
• conduct resident training in general surgery, orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery.
  

Choose Bronson
Did you know if you or a family had a life-threatening injury, you can be taken to the trauma center of your choice? Simply make it known to your loved ones and/or emergency personnel that you want to be taken to Bronson.