The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary.

Maine Medical Center is a Level I trauma center, which provides comprehensive care for injured patients from prevention to ...

Serious injury is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 1 and 44, and after cancer and the heart disease-stroke complex, injury results in the most years of life lost. Injury ...

Six years ago, an expert panel made a strong suggestion to the White House: set up a national system to care for patients with traumatic injuries, which lead to about 30,000 deaths every year. “In the ...

Access to pediatric trauma centers in Canada is crucial for improving outcomes; however, significant provincial disparities ...

One third of severely injured trauma patients in the United States are first treated at hospitals designated as Level III or non-trauma centers, and less than half of those patients get transferred ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WJET/WFXP) — Following the approval of the closure of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pennsylvania now has one fewer accredited trauma center. According to the Pennsylvania ...