• Utah Department of Health Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Preparedness Application for Designation Level IV Trauma Center

    Utah Department of Health Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Preparedness Application for Designation Level IV Trauma Center

    Rev. 12/2023
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  • State of Utah Trauma Center Designation, Review, and Consultation Process

    120 Days Prior to Survey:

    • Submit Trauma Desgination Request Application
    • First time applicants must have a minimum of 1 year of trauma registry data prior to application

    90 Days Prior to Survey:

    • State will provide site survey date
    • Site agenda and reviewers names provided
    • Details related to survey documents and details provided

    30 Days Prior to Survey:

    • Center must submit state required payment for site visit
    • Site visits cancelled or rescheduled within 30 days of the scheduled survey date will forefit the site vist fee.

    14-30 Days Following Survey:

    • State will send written report citing Strengths, Deficiencies, Opportunities for Improvement, and Recommendations that were cited during the site visit.
  • Utah Department of Health Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Preparedness Application for Designation Level IV Trauma Center

    Utah Department of Health Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and Preparedness Application for Designation Level IV Trauma Center

    Rev. 02/2023
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  • Type of Review:
  • Reporting year (12 months and should not be older than 14 months):

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  • HOSPITAL INFORMATION

    A. General Information:

  • 1. Tax Status:
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  • I. REGIONAL TRAUMA SYSTEMS: OPTIMAL ELEMENTS, INTEGRATION, AND ASSESSMENT

  • 1. Does the trauma center leadership participate actively in a state and regional system? (CD 1-1, 1-2, and 1-3) (If "yes", please describe)
  • 2. Attendance and participation threshold at regional and State Trauma Systems meetings of 75% are required. (State Criteria) **Provide evidence of attendance (at time of survey)**
  • II. DESCRIPTION / TRAUMA LEVEL AND ROLES

  • 1. Does this trauma center have an integrated, concurrent performance improvement and patient (PIPS) program to ensure optimal care and continuous improvement in care? (CD 2-1)
  • ** MUST PROVIDE A WRITTEN PIPS PLAN AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • 2. Does the trauma center provide the necessary human and physical resources (physical plant and equipment) to properly administer acute care consistent with their level of verification? (CD 2-3)
  • 3. Complete the table below for the total number of emergency department (ED) visits for the reporting year with ICD-10 codes according to State Rule R426-9-700. Must include at least one of the following injury diagnostic codes: ICD10 Diagnostic Codes: S00-S00 with 7th character modifiers of A, B, or C only, T07, T14, T20-T28 with 7th character modifier of A, T30-T32, T79.A1-T79.A9 with 7th character modifier of A excluding the following isolated injuries: S00, S10, S20, S30, S40, S50, S60, S70, S80, S90. Late effect codes, which are represented using the same range of injury diagnosis codes but with the 7th digit modifier code of D through S are also excluded

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  • 4. Are all patients reviewed timely by the TPM and TMD for appropriateness of admission and other opportunities for improvement? (CD 2-1)
  • 5. Is the attendance threshold of 80% met for physician or midlevel presence in the emergency department for patients with highest level of activation? (CD2-8)
  • 6. Is the physician or midlevel arrival within 30 minutes monitored by the hospital’s trauma PIPS program? (CD 2-8)
  • 7. Are collaborative treatment and transfer guidelines reflecting the Level IV facilities’ capabilities developed and regularly reviewed, with input from higher-level trauma centers in the region? (CD 2–13)
  • ** MUST PROVIDE A WRITTEN TRANSFER PLAN AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • 8. Does the facility have 24-hour emergency coverage by a physician or midlevel provider? (CD 2–14)
  • 9. Is the emergency department continuously available for resuscitation with coverage by a registered nurse and physician or midlevel provider, and does it have a physician director? (CD 2–15)
  • 10. Are all ED providers current in Advanced Trauma Life Support® certification as part of their competencies in trauma? (CD 2–16)2–16). (All Non-ED Boarded Providers in Level IV Centers)
  • 11. Are the trauma medical director and trauma program manager knowledgeable and involved in trauma care and work together with guidance from the trauma peer review committee to identify events, develop corrective action plans, and ensure methods of monitoring, reevaluation, and benchmarking? (CD 2-17)
  • ** MUST PROVIDE EXAMPLES OF MEETING CRITERIA AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • 12. Does the multidisciplinary trauma peer review committee meet regularly, with required attendance of medical staff active in trauma resuscitation, to review systemic and care provider issues, as well as propose improvements to the care of the injured patient? (CD 2–18)
  • ** MUST PROVIDE EXAMPLES OF MEETING CRITERIA TERIA AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • 13. Does the PIPS program have audit filters to review and improve pediatric and adult patient care (CD 2–19)?
  • ** MUST PROVIDE EXAMPLES OF MEETING CRITERIA AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • 14. Does the trauma center actively participate in regional and statewide trauma system meetings and committees that provide oversight? (CD 2–20)
  • ** MUST PROVIDE EXAMPLES OF MEETING CIRTERIA AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • 15. Is the trauma center the local trauma authority and assume the responsibility for providing training for prehospital and hospital based providers? (CD 2–21)
  • ** MUST PROVIDE EXAMPLES OF MEETING CRITERIA AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • 16. Does the facility participate in regional disaster management plans and exercises? (CD 2-22)
  • ** MUST PROVIDE EXAMPLES OF MEETING CRITERIA AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • III. PREHOSPITAL TRAUMA CARE

  • IV. INTERHOSPITAL TRANSFER

  • V. HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION AND THE TRAUMA PROGRAM

  • 1. Does the hospital have the commitment of the institutional governing body and medical staff to become a trauma center? (CD 5–1)
  • Education:
  • 4. Are the criteria for graded activation clearly defined by the trauma center, including the highest level of activation including the six required criteria listed in the ACS BOOK OF OPTIMAL CARE? (CD 5–13)
  • ** HAVE ACTIVATION CRITERIA AVAILABLE AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • 5. Are the activation criteria reviewed annually? (CD 5-13)
  • 6. Does the facility have a multi-level response?
  • 7. Do you have geriatric-trauma activation criteria?
  • 8. Is the team fully assembled within 30 minutes? (CD 5-15)
  • 9. Is the activation criteria evaluated on an ongoing basis in the PIPS process to determine their positive predictive value in identifying patients who require the resources of the full trauma team? (CD 5-16)
  • 10. Number of trauma activations :

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  • 11. Which trauma team members respond to each level of activation?

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  • VI. GENERAL SURGERY

  • 2. If applicable, is is there an on-call Surgical Coverage for Trauma Patients and is the maximum response time criteria of 30 minutes or less achieved? (CD 2-8)
  • 3. Is response time tracked from patient arrival rather than from notification or activation time? (CD 2-8)
  • ** HAVE PROCESS AVAILABLE AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • 4. Does the PIPS Program demonstrate the surgeon’s (if available) attendance for the highest-level at least 80 percent of the time? (CD 2-8)
  • ** HAVE PROCESS AVAILABLE AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • 5. Is there a published schedule of general surgical coverage (where applicable)?
  • ** HAVE PROCESS AVAILABLE AT TIME OF SURVEY**

  • VII. EMERGENCY MEDICINE

  • **Have a copy of the ED trauma flow sheet available at the time of the site visit.**

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  • 4. Is there a representative from the emergency department participating in the pre-hospital PIPS program?
  • 5. Does the emergency medicine liaison on the multidisciplinary trauma peer review committee attend a minimum of 50% of the committee meetings?
  • 6. Have all of the physicians who are board certified/eligible in emergency medicine successfully completed the ATLS course at least once?
  • 7. Do the other physicians who are board certified/eligible other than emergency medicine have current ATLS status? (Working in the ED and taking care of Trauma Patients)
  • VIII. NEUROSURGERY (N/A)

  • IX. ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY (IF APPLICABLE)

  • 2. Is there an orthopedic surgeon who is identified as the liaison to the trauma program?
  • 3. Does the PIPS process review the appropriateness of the decision to transfer or retain major orthopaedic trauma patients? (Yes/No)
  • 6. Does the orthopaedic service actively participate in the overall trauma PIPS program and the multidisciplinary trauma peer review committee? (Yes/No)
  • X. PEDIATRIC TRAUMA CARE:

  • 1. Trauma care provided to pediatric patients must have a pediatric specific PI program that reviews trauma care for all pediatric trauma patients. Do you have this process in place?
  • XI. COLLABORATIVE CLINICAL SERVICES:

  • 1. ANESTHESIOLOGY (if available):

  • 2. OPERATING ROOM (if available):

  • a. Is the operating room adequately staffed and available within 30 minutes?
  • 3. POST - ANESTHESIA CARE UNIT (if available):

  • 4. RADIOLOGY:

  • a. Is conventional Radiology and CT services available 24 hours per day either in house or on call. (CD 11-29)
  • b. Does the trauma center have policies designed to ensure that appropriately trained providers accompany trauma patients who may require resuscitation and monitoring during transportation to and while in the radiology department?
  • d. Who provides FAST for trauma patients? (Check all that apply)
  • g. Is critical information deemed to immediately affect patient care verbally communicated to the trauma team in a timely manner?
  • 5. INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (ICU) (IF AVAILABLE):

  • a. Does your facility have an ICU?
  • 6. RESPIRATORY SERVICES:

  • 7. CLINICAL LABORATORY AND BLOOD BANK:

  • a. Are laboratory services available 24 hours per day for the standard analysis of blood, urine, and other body fluids, including micro-sampling when appropriate? (CD 11­-80)
  • b. Is the blood bank capable of blood typing and cross matching? (CD 11­-81)
  • f. Does the facility have a massive transfusion protocol developed collaboratively between the trauma service and the blood bank? (CD 11-­84)
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  • h. Do you have an anticoagulation reversal protocol?
  • 8. ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS:

  • a. Does the trauma or ED utilize APs in the initial evaluation of trauma patients during the activation phase?
  • b. If yes, are the APPs current in ATLS? (CD 11-86)
  • c. Which advanced practitioners participate in the initial evaluation of trauma patients? (choose all that apply)
  • d. Does the trauma program demonstrate appropriate orientation, credentialing processes, and skill maintenance for advanced practitioners, as witnessed by an annual review by the TMD? (CD 11-87)
  • XII. REHABILITATION (IF AVAILABLE):

  • XIII. RURAL TRAUMA CARE:

  • THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA MUST BE MET (Please Check ALL):
  • XIV. BURN CARE:

  • XV: TRAUMA REGISTRY:

  • 2. Are trauma registry data collected and analyzed? (CD 15­-1)
  • 3. Is this data collected and submitted in a timely fashion so it can be aggregated and analyzed at the state level? (Rule 426-9-700)
  • 4. Does the trauma registry support the PIPS process? (CD 15–3)( 15-4)
  • 5. Are at least 80% of the trauma cases entered into the trauma registry within 60 days of discharge? (CD 15­-6)
  • 6. Has the registrar attended or previously attended two courses within 12 months of being hired? (check all that apply)
  • 7. Does the trauma program ensure that trauma registry confidentiality measures are in place? (CD 15-­8)
  • 8. Are there strategies for monitoring data validity for the trauma registry? (CD 15­-10)
  • XVI: PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT AND PATIENT SAFETY:

  • 1. Is the PIPS program supported by a reliable method of data collection that consistently obtains the necessary information to identify opportunities for improvement? (CD 15-1)
  • 2. Does the process of event identification and level of review result in development of corrective action plans, and methods of monitoring, reevaluation, and benchmarking? (CD 2­-17)
  • 4. Does peer review occur at regular intervals to ensure that the volume of cases is reviewed in a timely fashion? (CD 2–18)
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  • 7. Is the trauma PIPS program empowered to address events that involve multiple disciplines? (CD 5-1)
  • a. Is the PIPS program endorsed by the hospital governing body as part of its commitment to optimal care of injured patients? (CD 5-1) (Yes/No)
  • b. Is there adequate administrative support to ensure evaluation of all aspects of trauma care? (CD 5-1)
  • c. Do the TMD and TPM have authority and are they empowered by the hospital governing body to lead the program? (CD 5-1)
  • 8. Is the TMD the chair of the peer review committee? (Yes/No)
  • 9. Is there a multidisciplinary performance improvement process to evaluate over triage and under triage rates to attain the optimal goal of less than 5 percent undertriage?
  • 16. Does your trauma program have a written PI plan outlining your PIPS process? (CD 16-5) (HAVE A COPY AVAILABLE AT SURVEY)
  • XVII: OUTREACH and EDUCATION:

  • 1. Is the trauma center engaged in public and professional education? (CD 17­-1)
  • XVIII: PREVENTION

  • 1. Does the trauma center demonstrate the presence of injury prevention activities that centers on priorities based on local data? (CD 18–1)
  • 2. Does your trauma center have someone in a leadership position that has injury prevention as part of his or her job description? (CD 18-2) (Yes/No) Please provide documentation along with job description at time of survey:
  • XIX: Trauma Research and Scholoarship: N/A for level IV Centers

  • XX: DISASTER PLANNING:

  • 1. Trauma center meet the disaster-related requirements of the Joint Commission? (CD 20–1).
  • 2. Are there hospital drills that test the hospital's disaster plan conducted at least twice a year, including actual plan activations that can substitute for drills? (CD 20–3) Please provide documentation that supports these drills as required (available during site survey):
  • 3. Does the trauma center have a hospital disaster plan described in the hospital’s policy and procedure manual or equivalent? (CD 20­-4) Please have this plan available at time of survey:
  •  XXI. SOLID ORGAN PROCUREMENT ACTIVITES

  • 1. Does your trauma center have written protocols defining the clinical criteria and confirmatory tests for the diagnosis of brain death (CD 21–3). (HAVE DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE AT TIME OF SURVEY)
  • APPENDIX # 9 – PIPS Committee – Multidisciplinary Trauma Systems/Operations Committee

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  • APPENDIX #8 – PIPS Committee- MULTIDISCPLINARY TRAUMA PEER REVIEW

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  • Utah Department of Health Office of Emergency Medical Services and Preparedness Trauma Center & Resource Hospital Capabilities

    Utah Department of Health Office of Emergency Medical Services and Preparedness Trauma Center & Resource Hospital Capabilities

    Rev. 02/2023
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  • THE RESPONSES TO THESE QUESTIONS ARE REQUIRED IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE RULES: R426-9-500  and R426-9-1000 

    PLEASE RESPOND AS ACCURATELY AS POSSIBLE - USE AS MUCH SPACE AS YOU NEED

    If you need clarification or assistance, please e-mail Carl Avery at carlavery@utah.gov

    or call (385) 522-1685

  • State of Utah Trauma Center Designation, Review, and Consultation Process

    120 Days Prior to Survey:

    • Submit Trauma Desgination Request Application
    • First time applicants must have a minimum of 1 year of trauma registry data prior to application

    90 Days Prior to Survey:

    • State will provide site survey date
    • Site agenda and reviewers names provided
    • Details related to survey documents and details provided

    30 Days Prior to Survey:

    • Center must submit state required payment for site visit
    • Site visits cancelled or rescheduled within 30 days of the scheduled survey date will forefit the site vist fee.

    14-30 Days Following Survey:

    • State will send written report citing Strengths, Deficiencies, Opportunities for Improvement, and Recommendations that were cited during the site visit.
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