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Fri Jul 17 15:26:24 BST 2009

Hello all.

We are a Level II Trauma Center.  We are a non-profit private hospital and we currently do not have intensivists in the ICUs or residents.  We are brainstorming different ideas regarding the organization of our trauma department, and would like to see how many responses we can get to these questions in order to find the best way to design our program to optimize patient outcomes.

Any information you can pass to us would be very helpful.  Thank you.

 1.  What level trauma center are you?
 2.  Are you a teaching vs. non-teaching hospital?
 3.  What is your annual volume? Do you count same level hip fractures in these numbers?
 4.  Does your program utilize Nurse Practitioners or Physician Assistants?
If so how many?
Who do they report to?
Are they employed by the hospital?

 1.   Do you have intensivists in SICU/MICU?

 1.  What type of physicians?  Pulmonologist/Surgeon/Anesthesiologists

 1.   Who does the team consist of physician, mid-level, and other staff?

 1.  What hours do they work?  Is there 24 hour in house coverage?

 1.  If Mid-levels are utilized, who are they employed by?

 1.  Is there a physician admission team?

 1.  If so, do they turn over care the next morning to the physician group that would have normally admitted the patient?

 1.  If there is an intensivist team, do they assist in the admission processes/team?

Julie Beaver RN, BSN, CCRN
Trauma Outcomes Coordinator
Covenant Medical Center-Lubbock
806-725-0495 (o)
806-535-4123 (c)
806-725-0131 (fax)
Beaverj1 at covhs.org<mailto:Beaverj1 at covhs.org>

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds  discuss events; Small minds discuss people"

Eleanor Roosevelt

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