![]() ![]() "(Last Wednesday) night we had beautiful weather, and we had six gunshot victims come in with wounds to the head, ear, chest, back, abdomen and knee. It is a critically important and highly stressful job and one where a day's demand can surprise even longtime trauma surgeons such as Doherty. That's why taking on something like this (Level I center) is a statement that you are committed to caring about your community and that it's not about the money. "We provide an enormous amount of charity. "What ends up is that the hospital writes off much of that (care)," he said. Asked what sort of financial impact the Holy Cross center will have on Christ, Doherty said most trauma care patients don't have medical insurance. He said trauma care represents a small portion of what the Christ ER sees each year, about 100,000 visits. ![]() It's possible we may offset that with natural growth." ![]() "At the same time, our (total ER patient) numbers may still go up. you worry about your staff, will we have too many surgeons?" he said. James Health in Olympia Fields, dropping its Level I center in 2008, he said.ĭoherty expects Holy Cross to receive about 500 trauma patients a year at first, with most coming from Christ. Some of that was due to Olympia Fields Osteopathic Hospital, now Franciscan St. That rose to 3,384 in 2012 and declined to 3,119 in 2014, Doherty said.īut he said the total number of trauma patients at the hospital, which includes children and patients first brought to the emergency room before being referred to trauma care, has risen in each of the past six years from 3,647 in 2008 to 4,509 in 2014. The number of adult trauma care patients brought to Christ was 2,815 in 2008. ![]()
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