“It’s the same people, the same facility, the same tools. “A lot of patients are not going to see any difference,” Anderson said.
UTAH TRAUMA CENTER LEVELS UPGRADE
As a result, the hospital received an immediate and automatic upgrade to level III. As a Level III trauma center, we can now do that.”Īnderson said his department took pride in not only passing the review process but in getting a perfect review. “We want to be able to treat and keep more patients in the Yampa Valley instead of having to send them to another facility. “We see trauma every day, and we see a lot of it for a town and hospital of our size due to the active lifestyle of our community,” said Tiffany Moore, RN and trauma coordinator at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center, in a news release.
The new Level III designation means that the emergency department at Yampa Valley Medical Center will be able to keep trauma patients with hemodynamically-stable multi-system traumas, trauma patients on ventilators and trauma patients with non-surgical brain bleeds, following a consultation with a level I or Level II facility. On the other end of the spectrum, a Level I trauma center offers 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 medicine, plastic surgery, oral and maxillofacial, pediatric and critical care. Patients requiring more comprehensive care must be transferred to a Level 1, 11 or III trauma center. Level V trauma centers offer basic emergency room facilities to implement Advanced Trauma Life Support protocols. Emergency rooms in the state of Colorado have designations between level V (the lowest) to level I. He said the new designation could mean the difference between a patient staying in the Yampa Valley or being transferred to a Front Range hospital with a higher trauma designation. The physician said the process of moving from a Level IV to a Level III trauma designation required staff and physicians to examine, upgrade and expand many of procedures and processes - not only in the emergency departments, but in other departments that would be impacted by the higher designations.Īnderson said the emergency department leadership will take a moment to celebrate the accomplishment, but they will be back to work tomorrow fine tuning, improving and making sure that the care the community needs is there when they need it. We prepared for it for a long time, we have been ready for it for a longer time, so yeah, it’s a lot of work done.” “Of course, there is a tremendous sense of relief, but there should also be a sense of that this was the expected outcome. “It’s like studying for a final exam and then passing it,” said Nathan Anderson, YVMC emergency medicine physician and trauma co-director. STEAMBOAT SPRINGS - The emergency department at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center in Steamboat Springs is taking patient care to a new level after being designated as a Level III trauma center by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Health Facilities and Emergency Medical Services Division on Feb. The UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center emergency department has been designated by the state as a Level III trauma center.
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