The top reasons for a patient to be transferred from the hospital, Grote said, are for patients needing a neurosurgeon or with a spinal injury, and a pediatric patient under 16 years old. Victims of assaults and accidents by a railroad or train are also frequently seen by the center. The most common types of injuries seen at the trauma center are a result of falls, motor vehicle accidents, and gunshot wounds, Grote said. “Sometimes, we do have to transport patients to outlying facilities.”įrom January 2020 through June 2022, Kettering Health Hospital’s trauma center was activated 139 times for Category 1 traumas and 416 times for Category 2 traumas, according to the hospital. “For the most part, we are able to maintain all of these patients here in our community, as well as within our hospitals,” Grote said. Grote agreed, adding that the hospital tries to keep as much of a patient’s hospital care locally, and their transfer rate is “very low.” “It keeps from having families from having to travel farther to visit someone who goes through a trauma situation,” he said. Hamilton Mayor Pat Moeller said the hospital’s Level 3 Trauma Center is not just important to the city, but to families. This is just one more way Kettering Health Hamilton is the leader in quality care close to home.” ![]() “Our team of providers are committed to bringing their best care to Hamilton. “We’re so glad Butler County residents can count on high-quality care close to home, especially in an emergency when minutes matter,” he said. Kettering Health Hamilton President Paul Hoover said this verification from the American College of Surgeons demonstrates the hospital’s “continued commitment to the highest quality of trauma care available only at Kettering Health Hamilton.” In early August, the hospital received preliminary approval and was approved in November. ACS waited three years to review Kettering Health Hamilton’s center. ![]() Grote said the hospital started the trauma center verification process in September 2019 and had its pre-verification review then, but the COVID-19 pandemic put that process on hold until this year. Atrium Medical Center in the Warren County part of Middletown is also a Level 3 Trauma Center. There are also transfer agreements with Level 1 or Level 2 trauma centers that provide backup resources for the care of patients with exceptionally severe injuries.Īccording to the American College of Surgeons (ACS), Kettering Health Hamilton is the seventh Level 3 Trauma Center in southwest Ohio and the Miami Valley area, and the second in Butler County ( UC Health West Chester Medical Center is also a Level 3 center). In addition to Metro and UH, there’s a third level-1 adult trauma center in the system, at the Cleveland Clinic’s Akron General Hospital.Level 3 trauma centers don’t have the full availability of specialists ― for example, there’s not a neurosurgeon at Kettering Health Hamilton, but there is one within the Kettering Health Network and at nearby University of Cincinnati Medical Center ― but has resources for emergency resuscitation, surgery, and intensive care of most trauma patients. “We’ll look at all those things in terms of providing the most appropriate care at the most appropriate center in a timely manner,” Wyllie said. Wyllie says emergency workers will factor in traffic patterns and weather when determining where to take patients. After about a year of discussion, hospital officials say they’ll be working together under a new charter. Wyllie is the chairman of the regional system, called NOTS. “I don’t know that those concerns are gone, but the way to address those concerns is for all three of those systems to come together,” The Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Initially, the regional system resisted the idea of UH operating a trauma center independently. MetroHealth’s level-1 adult trauma center was the only such facility in the city-until late 2015, when University Hospitals opened its own. MetroHealth and the Cleveland Clinic started the Northern Ohio Trauma System in 2010, intended to coordinate care for people in need of serious emergency medical attention. ![]() The move comes about a year after UH opened a trauma center on the east side of Cleveland. ![]() University Hospitals is joining on to a regional trauma care system with MetroHealth Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic.
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