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Nevada's Only ACS-verified Level I Trauma Center and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center
About Us · History · In 2007… · Trauma Administration · Trauma Fellowships · Contact Us
About Us:
The Trauma Center's highly specialized medical personnel and dedicated resources are focused on injured patients receiving life-saving trauma care that meets or exceeds the standards found at top-rated trauma centers across the United States.
Offering the highest level of trauma care in the state of Nevada, UMC is a core component of Nevada's emergency medical system. The level of care for injured patients is continuously pursued through clinical care services, active research, and education and prevention programs. The facility and its staff members provide 24-hour care, standing by to receive, stabilize, and treat those whose lives are threatened by multi-system, brain, and orthopaedic injuries, and those at risk for multiple system organ failure.
The Trauma Center services the two million residents of Clark County and the 32 million visitors per year. Service area consists of 1,500 square miles including Southern Nevada, parts of California, Utah and Arizona.
From this service area, approximately 79% of primary admissions arrive by ambulance and 19% arrive by air.
History:
Built in 1992, the 18,000 square-foot Trauma Center includes a well-equipped 11-bed resuscitation area, three operating suites, a 14-bed trauma intensive care unit as well as state-of-the-art rapid sequence CT scanner and an angiography suite. Adjacent to the building is a 288 space parking structure with a helipad for air transport of trauma patients.
In 2007…
The UMC Trauma Center treated over 10,000 injured patients 900 of whom had an Injury Severity Score (ISS) greater than 15. Traffic-related trauma is the leading cause of traumatic death. The hospital works closely with local, state and national organizations to promote public awareness of trauma as a public health epidemic.
The Administration at UMC’s Trauma Center consists of:
Medical Director:Dr. John Fildes, MD FACS FACCM
Chief of Education, Vice Department Chair: Dr. Jay Coates, DO
Medical Director, Trauma Intensive Care Unit: Dr. Deborah Kuhls, MD
Associate Pediatric Medical Directors: Dr. John Gosche, MD & Dr. Meena Vohra, MD
UMC Associate Administrator, Trauma Services: Kim Voss, RN
Director of Trauma Services: Gregg Fusto, RN
Pediatric Trauma Program Manager: Alma Angeles, RN BSN CPSTI
Clinical Manager, Trauma Resuscitation: Dan Petcavage, RN BS
Clinical Manager, Trauma ICU: Tana Wisniewski, RN
Performance Improvement Nurse: Dana Clark, RN
Clinical Educator, Trauma: Debbie Bailey, RN BSN CCRN
EMS Liaison: Tracy Thomson, RN
Registrars: Elizabeth Snavely, BS CSTR & Joann Santiago
Executive Secretary: Karrissa Rivera
Director of Trauma OR: Milissa Donahue, BSN MBA
Fellowship Programs:
Contact Us:
Trauma Services Office
Office: 702-383-2092
Fax: 702-383-3733
Trauma Resuscitation Department
Trauma Intensive Care Unit
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