Can all hospitals in the usa treat trauma patients?

Answer 1

As long as their is an emergency room they treat trama. Many times they will stabilize the patient and send them to a trauma center if the trauma is severe.
My husband works in an ER that is not a trauma center but they do occasionally get traumas if they are brought in by friends or family and not an ambulance. They treat the best they can, stabilize the patient, and transfer them out.

Answer 2

Well the hospital would have to have a trauma center and there are different levels of trauma centers. Each level is capable of a certain degree of treatment. So any hospital with a trauma center could treat trauma patients but each hospital would be able to treat a different severity of trauma.
Level 1 trauma centers have a full range of specialists and equipment available 24 hours a day, while Level 4 trauma centers provides stabilization and treatment of severely injured patients in remote areas where no alternative care is available. In between those, Level 2 and Level 3 centers have resources to treat severely injured patients but do not have ongoing research and are not required to have a surgical residency program. Level 3 trauma centers also don't have a full availability of specialists.

Answer 3

Some hospitals are only for minor emergencies. If they can't treat you they will do everything possible to stabilize the patient and transport to the nearest trauma center. The reason some hospital scannot treat traumas is because they are smaller community hospitals and may not have the financial resources to buy the equipment necessary and have the properly trained physicians on staff or on call to treat those types of emergencies. Most of the time they are affliated with another hospital and can arrange transport to a trauma center very easily.

Answer 4

Any hospital with an emergency room is supposed to take in trauma patients and treat them to the best of their ability. However, there are designated "regional trauma centers" to ensure that major population centers in the US have at least one fully-equipped trauma center. That is basically an operating room in the ER, with very sophisticated life-saving equipment all in one place. For many trauma patients, they can't wait to be triaged in ER and then sent to OR, so they get all the procedures in one place. That has been shown to save many more lives for cases such as gunshot wounds, accident victims and heart attacks.

Answer 5

No, not really. While most American hospitals are equipped with Emergency Rooms, not all of them can handle extremely
serious problems like gunshot wounds, life threatening car
accidents, serious heart problems or transplant patients. So, what some of our hospitals do is to do their best to stabilize a patient to the best of their ability and then the hospital calls Life-Flight to have the patient transported by helicopter to a hospital that is better equipped to handle a particular type of emergency best. In the State I live in, we have some of the very best heart surgeons, trauma surgeons, children's hospitals and surgeons, and several of the best equipped trauma rooms. I know every State has at least one really good hospital, if not more, but our Medical Center is truly state-of-the-art. My State has hospitals that handles indigent, non-insured people, as well as the rich people that have very good health insurance policies.
I've had enough of our family members go to several of our hospitals to know, our only daughter is an Operating Room Nurse, my cousin is a post-operating room acute care nurse, my Aunt is a very recently retired Nurse, we have had several members of our family saved by our Heart Institute and our Cancer Center. We also have our share of Veterans' Hospitals scattered throughout our State. Many small towns have community hospitals, but a lot of them are not well enough equipped to have the technology, the instruments or specialty doctors needed, and although they help do what they can, they almost always send an emergency message out to see which hospital can take a particular trauma victim needing immediate attention. That is what is great about having our Life-Flight system because it can transport people much faster than ambulances can to get them to a hospital that can help save their lives. It's not a fool-proof system, but out system tends to work fast and very well.
I live in a really huge city where we tend to take some of our excellent hospitals for granted, but I always make sure that I donate money to various causes and also to research to help keep our terrific doctors and hospitals working so well, to help keep saving as many lives as possible and to help further our research facilities to help find cures for so many diseases that are currently treatable only but not cureable yet.
Now that we are going to be moving, I am going to miss all of these different hospitals, many have their own specialties, as well as excellent all-around-care for non-emergencies. I was also surprised to find out that we have people from all over the world with terrible health problems come to our State because they have read that we have so many specialty care hospitals. It made me very proud to know we are so fortunate.