McCall Memorial Hospital District Funding
Level IV Trauma Program
FY2018 – $117,677
FY2019 – $100,000
Funding Impact
- The Level IV Trauma designation demonstrates and validates our ability to provide advanced trauma life support (ATLS) and efficiently transfer patients to a higher-level trauma center when specialized care is needed.
- The designation ensures we continue to evaluate and improve our trauma care processes.
- McCall hired a trauma coordinator and appointed a trauma medical director, Dr. Amy Ocmand, to develop and run the program.
- Elements of Level IV Trauma Centers Include:
- Basic emergency department facilities to implement advanced trauma life support protocols and 24-hour laboratory coverage.
- Trauma nurse(s) and physician(s) available upon patient arrival. The trauma team is activated in the emergency department prior to or at patient arrival.
- May provide surgery and critical-care services if available.
- Utilize transfer agreements for patients requiring more comprehensive care at a higher-level trauma center.
- Incorporate a comprehensive quality assessment program.
- Engaged in trauma prevention efforts, including an active community outreach program.
Patient Impact
- Developed a systematic approach to assessment and treatment and measures our performance in treating trauma patients, including:
- Recording priority traumas, developing improvement in process measures, holding monthly quality reviews of key trauma metrics/cases with all stakeholders, and developing trauma prevention programs based on the data.
- Initially estimated 80 annual trauma patients in McCall when we first implemented the trauma program.
- Improved clinical outcomes, standardized care, more efficient transfers and continual improvement.
- Reduced utilization of lab and imaging resources due to McCall aligning its trauma protocols with St. Al’s, the regions only Level II trauma center.
- Associated improved emergency department care for stroke and heart patients stemming from our trauma learnings.
- Stronger collaboration with local EMS, air transport, emergency department and surgical services.
- Improved pre-hospital care processes by local EMS.
- McCall was the first hospital in St. Luke’s Health System to receive trauma designation, a first step in creating a trauma network within St. Luke’s. St. Luke’s Children’s – level 2 pediatric, Magic Valley-level 3 trauma center, Meridian, Wood River and Nampa – level 4 trauma.