South.(Regional News)(Alabama Department of Public Health)(St. John Health System)

Modern Healthcare, November, 2007

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-The Alabama Department of Public Health will develop a statewide trauma system in collaboration with medical professionals throughout the state. The trauma system, including emergency medical technicians, communication, hospital emergency department staff, trauma surgeons and physicians, will be created through legislation passed earlier this year giving oversight authority to the public health department. The department will expand an existing trauma communication center now serving seven counties in the Birmingham area to the whole state to coordinate trauma-care efforts and hopes to have the system in place within the next two years, said John Campbell, medical director of the state's EMS & Trauma Office.

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