Rural trauma resources related to rural health and human services, with information provided by the Rural Assistance Center Copyright 2012 Rural Assistance Center http://www.raconline.org/topics/trauma/ -- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services https://www.cms.gov/OpenDoorForums/10_ODF_Ambulance.asp#TopOfPage Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:14:48 CST https://www.cms.gov/OpenDoorForums/10_ODF_Ambulance.asp#TopOfPage Provides a picture of the supply and geographic distribution of institutions and individuals providing surgical services to help practitioners, policy makers and patients anticipate the current and future distribution and identify places with limited access to surgical services. -- American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute http://www.acshpri.org/atlas/ Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:32:18 CST http://www.acshpri.org/atlas/ -- National Association of EMTs http://www.naemt.org/advocacy/emsonthehillday/EMSontheHillDay.aspx Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:43:45 CST http://www.naemt.org/advocacy/emsonthehillday/EMSontheHillDay.aspx Savannah GA April 11, 2012 -- Society of Trauma Nurses http://www.traumanurses.org/15th-annual-conference.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:39:28 CST http://www.traumanurses.org/15th-annual-conference.html Focuses on improving outcomes for people who become suddenly ill or who are injured in rural areas of the U.S. and around the world. Dedicated to the prevention of injury and illness, research into rural injury and illness and training for rural emergency medical care providers. http://citmt.org/index2.htm Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:31:58 CST http://citmt.org/index2.htm Represents physicians who practice emergency medicine. Provides a national report card that includes an assessment of the support that each state provides for its emergency medicine system. http://www.acep.org/ Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:31:29 CST http://www.acep.org/ Designed to accompany HRSA's Model Trauma System Planning and Evaluation document, a guide to modern statewide trauma system development. Focuses on state and regional trauma system self-assessment. -- Health Resources and Services Administration http://www.publicsafety.ohio.gov/links/ems_self_assessment_tool.pdf Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:59:08 CST http://www.publicsafety.ohio.gov/links/ems_self_assessment_tool.pdf Designed to provide trauma care direction to trauma care professionals, including public health officials and health care policy experts, when developing and evaluating trauma systems. -- Health Resources and Services Administration http://www.ncdhhs.gov/dhsr/EMS/trauma/pdf/hrsatraumamodel.pdf Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:54:18 CST http://www.ncdhhs.gov/dhsr/EMS/trauma/pdf/hrsatraumamodel.pdf Provides information on State Flex Program EMS and trauma-related activities. Focuses on the designation of Critical Assess Hospitals as trauma centers. -- Flex Monitoring Team http://flexmonitoring.org/documents/BriefingPaper27-EMS-Trauma-systems-CAHs.pdf Fri, 14 May 2010 14:05:07 CST http://flexmonitoring.org/documents/BriefingPaper27-EMS-Trauma-systems-CAHs.pdf Reports that more than one-third of all Critical Access Hospitals in the U.S. have been designated as trauma centers. The project team identified a combined total of 560 CAHs designated as trauma centers. -- Flex Monitoring Team http://flexmonitoring.org/documents/PolicyBrief17-EMS-Trauma-systems-CAHs.pdf Fri, 14 May 2010 14:03:25 CST http://flexmonitoring.org/documents/PolicyBrief17-EMS-Trauma-systems-CAHs.pdf State-by-state list of farm rescue or response programs, Cooperative Extension Safety Specialists, and State EMS Training Coordinators. -- Office of Rural Health Policy ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/FarmRescueEMSDirectory.pdf Fri, 07 May 2010 09:00:52 CST ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/FarmRescueEMSDirectory.pdf A list of fact sheets on critical safety and health topics including agricultural safety, school bus safety, and on the road safety. -- National Safety Council http://www.nsc.org/news_resources/Resources/Pages/SafetyHealthFactSheets.aspx Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:55:54 CST http://www.nsc.org/news_resources/Resources/Pages/SafetyHealthFactSheets.aspx Update of the guidance recommended in the 2006 Guidelines for Field Triage of Injured Patients. The new version provides changes to the decision scheme for EMS providers who care for and transport patients injured from motor vehicle crashes, falls, penetrating injuries, and other injury mechanisms each day in our nations communities. -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.nasemso.org/documents/RR6101FieldTriageebook.pdf Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:16:46 CST http://www.nasemso.org/documents/RR6101FieldTriageebook.pdf Identifies published literature that describes the frequency, epidemiology, etiology, typology, and cost of ambulance crashes generally and rural ambulance crashes specifically. http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman2/publish/article_33666.shtml Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:41:29 CST http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman2/publish/article_33666.shtml An interactive tool that allows the user to find the trauma care centers in their region and across the United States. -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/traumacare/access_trauma.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:02:00 CST http://www.cdc.gov/traumacare/access_trauma.html An interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data. -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:41:09 CST http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html Describes the uneven distribution of surgeons across the United States, with more surgeons located in urban centers and fewer in rural communities. -- American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute http://acshpri.org/documents/ACSHPRI_FS2.pdf Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:46:57 CST http://acshpri.org/documents/ACSHPRI_FS2.pdf Discusses U.S. surgical workforce trends over the last 25 years and the problem of geographic distribution of surgeons in future years. -- American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute http://acshpri.org/documents/ACSHPRI_FS1.pdf Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:12:24 CST http://acshpri.org/documents/ACSHPRI_FS1.pdf Studies and reports on issues related to the state of the surgical profession, the surgical workforce, and surgical utilization in the United States. Provides advice, data analysis, and research for surgical professional associations and boards, policymakers, and the health services research community. http://acshpri.org/index.html Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:57:03 CST http://acshpri.org/index.html Provides access to personal stories, a directory of state resource centers, and various sources of information on topics related to traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a way to help prevent, treat, and otherwise help people living with a TBI. -- Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center http://www.brainline.org/ Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:44:05 CST http://www.brainline.org/ Serves as a national focal point for the dissemination of information on rural and frontier emergency medical services (EMS) and trauma care. REMSTTAC can be utilized by various rural and frontier EMS providers including federal grant recipients, state EMS and rural health offices, and their constituencies, such as rural hospitals and communities. http://www.remsttac.org/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:12:11 CST http://www.remsttac.org/ Provides a variety of resources to assess and evaluate trauma systems. Includes consultative guidance for future trauma system development. -- American College of Surgeons http://www.facs.org/trauma/tsepc/index.html Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:37:04 CST http://www.facs.org/trauma/tsepc/index.html Discusses organized trauma care systems, which are critical to reducing mortality and morbidity in rural areas. Highlights include how access to trauma care varies by state, how rural hospitals play a role in trauma care, and a future goal of having coordinated care nationwide. -- Rural Assistance Center http://www.raconline.org/newsletter/2007/fall.php#trauma Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:01:57 CST http://www.raconline.org/newsletter/2007/fall.php#trauma Depicts Level I/II trauma center coverage throughout the United States. Identifies the availability of helicopter or ambulance for transport method. http://emergencymap.org/Trauma.aspx Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:38:59 CST http://emergencymap.org/Trauma.aspx Compares the findings of the Institute of Medicine's Future of Emergency Care reports with previous work on Rural Health and with the Rural and Frontier EMS Agenda for the Future and HRSA Model Trauma System Planning and Evaluation document. Identifies similarities and overlaps of the recommendations and approaches. -- Health Resources and Services Administration ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/QualityThroughCollaboration.pdf Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:14:15 CST ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/QualityThroughCollaboration.pdf Describes how death rates from traumatic injury are higher in rural United States and identifies successful statewide trauma care systems with a focus on Maine. http://www.dailyyonder.com/rural-trauma-victims-dying-golden-rule Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:28:29 CST http://www.dailyyonder.com/rural-trauma-victims-dying-golden-rule Funding to construct, enlarge, or improve essential community facilities for health care, public safety, and public services in rural areas. -- USDA Rural Development http://www.raconline.org/funding/details.php?funding_id=91 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:05:47 CST http://www.raconline.org/funding/details.php?funding_id=91 Provides guidelines and plans for health care institutions and public health agencies in the implementation of trauma systems. -- American College of Surgeons http://www.facs.org/trauma/tsepc/pdfs/consultationguide-prq.pdf Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:41:59 CST http://www.facs.org/trauma/tsepc/pdfs/consultationguide-prq.pdf Educates people in prevention of accidental injury and death, and safety issues. Includes a directory of state chapters and local offices which provide training, conferences, workshops, consultation, newsletters, and safety support materials. http://www.nsc.org/Pages/Home.aspx Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:58:26 CST http://www.nsc.org/Pages/Home.aspx Section from the ACS publication "Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient 2006." Lists and defines the levels of trauma care found in a trauma care system. -- American College of Surgeons http://www.facs.org/trauma/hospitallevels.pdf Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:11:56 CST http://www.facs.org/trauma/hospitallevels.pdf