Loyola University Medical Center Reverified as Level 1 Trauma Center
August 13, 2018MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola University Medical Center has been reverified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma as a Level 1 Trauma Center.
Loyola is the only Level 1 trauma center in Illinois to be verified by the ACS. Verification helps ensure optimal quality care and excellent patient outcomes. Loyola's reverification is for three years.
The ACS verification, review and consultation program helps hospitals evaluate and improve trauma care. It provides an objective, external review of a trauma center’s resources and quality performance. A team of trauma experts completes an on-site review of the hospital. The team assesses relevant features of the program, including commitment, readiness, resources, policies, patient care and performance improvement.
A Level 1 trauma center is a comprehensive regional resource that serves as a tertiary care facility central to the trauma system. A Level 1 center is capable of providing total care for every aspect of injury – from prevention through rehabilitation. Level 1 trauma care requires sustained resources and cooperation among departments, and a broad and dedicated multidisciplinary team.
"We are gratified to receive this reverification," said Richard Gonzalez, MD, FACS, Loyola Medicine's division director of trauma, surgical critical care and burns. "It is recognition of Loyola’s extensive and continuing commitment to caring for our trauma patients."
The ACS is a scientific and education association of surgeons that works to improve the quality of care of surgical patients. The ACS Committee on Trauma strives to improve all phases of care for injured patients.
Loyola's trauma center offers a complete array of medical, surgical and ancillary services through an interdisciplinary program that serves the total needs of the injured patient.
About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from nearly 2,000 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the John L. Keeley, MD, Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, the Nancy W. Knowles Orthopaedic Institute, a certified comprehensive stroke center, transplant center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
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About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit us at www.trinity-health.org, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter).