The trauma program improves the care of the injured. The state trauma program provides a small stipend to trauma centers. The stipend simply helps trauma centers to offset some of the enormous costs of providing quality care to the injured. The trauma program supports many goals of the Department of Health, such as work force issues, reduction of medical errors, and promoting best practices. All of these efforts rely on accurate data that only the regionalized registries for trauma can provide.
Lives depend on it.
Timothy R. Siegel, Cooperstown Siegel is an attending general surgeon at Bassett Healthcare. The criminal-justice system is allowing the innocence of our children to be stolen and violated. This is in response to the letters by two Delaware County inmates who wrote about the justice system allowing child molesters and predators back out on the street. Being a parent, I am in total agreement. I feel the justice system is totally messed up.