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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Question of the Day By MARILYN HALSTEAD - Associated Press - Saturday, March 6, 2021
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - 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.
NBA YoungBoy Associate NBA Lil Pap Indicted for Murder of Gee Money
Jan 08, 2021 10:15 AM
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NBA Young Boy associate NBA Lil Pap, aka OTS Lil Pap, was indicted on Thursday (January 7) on a second-degree murder count in the 2017 shooting death of fellow Baton Rouge rapper Gee Money.
NBA Lil Pap, born Deandre Fields, 26, is accused of shooting Gee Money, real name Garrett Burton, outside of Burton s music studio on Dallas Drive in Baton Rouge in September 2017. Fields was arrested in 2019 for the murder of Burton, and his arrest warrant detailed what led to the beef between Burton and NBA YoungBoy.