Hospital marks year as southern Illinois' lone trauma center

Hospital marks year as southern Illinois' lone trauma center
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Fifteen months after receiving official designation as a Level II trauma center, emergency department staff at SIH Memorial Hospital and the entire Southern Illinois Healthcare system are celebrating the hospital's first year of service as Southern Illinois' only trauma center.
"In its first year, our trauma center has been really busy. We doubled our projection," Garrett Burton, SIH's director of trauma and emergency services, said.
A Trauma Center is a hospital designated by Illinois Department of Public Health to provide optimal care to trauma patients. Before Memorial Hospital was designated a trauma center late in 2019, the nearest trauma centers were in St. Louis and Evansville.

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