Hospitals that provide trauma care have highly trained staff and resuscitation life-support equipment always available. Hospitals have different trauma designations, based on the level of care available. Not all hospitals can provide trauma care.
Samaritan’s flagship hospital, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis, is a Level 2 trauma center and provides care to severely injured adult and pediatric patients from throughout the region. Read more about Good Samaritan trauma and acute care.
Samaritan’s four other hospitals, in Lincoln and Linn counties, are designated as Level 4 trauma centers. They are able to resuscitate and stabilize severely injured patients for transportation to a hospital that offers a higher level of trauma care. Often, in our region, this is Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
In Oregon, trauma hospitals are designated as Level 1, 2, 3 or 4, based on the range of care and services offered. Learn more.
Oregon has two Level 1 trauma hospitals, both of them in Portland. These hospitals provide the highest level of definitive, comprehensive care for the severely injured adult and pediatric patient with complex, multisystem trauma. This includes serious medical problems such as burns, spinal cord injury, eye injury and limb reimplantation.
Level 2 trauma hospitals, including Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, provide definitive care for severely injured adult and pediatric patients with complex trauma.
They are staffed with physicians who are trained in advanced trauma life support and experienced in caring for traumatically injured patients; with nurses and ancillary personnel who are immediately available to initiate resuscitative measures; and general surgeons, anesthesiologists, neurosurgeons and a broad range of specialists.
Level 4 hospitals, including Samaritan Albany General Hospital, Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital and Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital, provide resuscitation and stabilization of the severely injured adult or pediatric patient prior to transferring the patient to a higher-level trauma system hospital.
They may use surgical intervention to resuscitate and stabilize a patient. They are staffed with trauma-trained nursing personnel to immediately initiate life-saving maneuvers, and staffed with on-call physicians trained in advanced trauma life support. They are equipped with all appropriate equipment and diagnostic capabilities to resuscitate the severely injured patient.
