Coalition urges swift passage of Senate trauma care bill

[CAL/AAEM News Service]

Coalition urges swift passage of Senate trauma care bill

Source: American Hospital Association (http://www.ahanews.com) 
Date: June 27, 2006


A coalition of 18 health care organizations, including AHA, yesterday urged swift passage
of legislation extending a federal program that authorizes grants to states to plan,
implement and develop statewide trauma care systems, noting that the Institute of
Medicine last week called for a coordinated and regionalized system of emergency and
trauma care modeled after the program. “Hospital emergency departments and trauma centers
are severely overcrowded and often physician specialists are unavailable to provide
emergency and trauma care,” the organizations said in a letter to Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist, who sponsored the Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act. “
S. 265
addresses these problems and is the first crucial step in ensuring that Americans receive
the emergency care they expect and deserve.”


For more information, including a copy of the letter sent to Senator Frist, please visit:

http://www.hospitalconnect.com/ahanews/jsp/display.jsp?dcrpath=AHANEWS/AHANewsNowArticle/data/ann_060627_trauma&domain=AHANEWS



Cyrus Shahpar & Brian Potts 
Managing Editors, CAL/AAEM News Service
University of California, Irvine

The CAL/AAEM Archives are available at: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/calaaem/


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