This story was first published by UChicago Medicine. Adding pediatric cases, UChicago Medicine’s trauma care program is expected to have cared for more than 21,700 adults and children in that five-year timeframe. The violence recovery team has engaged 7,761 trauma patients in helping them transition back into the community, offering referrals to more than 60 community-based social and behavioral health agencies to ensure fuller recovery and to reduce the risk for re-injury and recidivism.īased on monthly averages, the five-year total will reach or exceed 18,800 adult trauma patients.The pediatric trauma team has cared for 2,893 children.According to the American Trauma Society, A Level One Trauma Center is capable of providing total care for every aspect of injury from prevention through rehabilitation. The adult trauma team has treated 18,494 patients. Level One is the highest designation available.Five years later (from May 1, 2018, to March 30, 2023): Level One Trauma Center criteria vary somewhat from state to state, but commonly include these elements, according to the American Trauma Society: 24-hour in-house coverage by general surgeons, and prompt availability of care in specialties such as orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, radiology, internal. After the first year, it treated 2,988 adult trauma cases. In June 2018, after the first month of operations, UChicago Medicine’s adult trauma center cared for 274 patients. While trauma volumes for April 2023 are being finalized, the academic health system released the latest figures to mark the five-year anniversary of its adult trauma program, which began on May 1, 2018.

The University of Chicago Medicine is set to surpass 18,800 adult trauma patients since launching a Level 1 adult trauma center and Violence Recovery Program at its main campus on the city’s South Side five years ago.

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