Trauma Services

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The Region’s Only Level I Trauma Center

Erlanger Health System provides the highest level of care for critically ill and traumatically injured patients. As southeast Tennessee’s only Level I Trauma Center designated by both Alabama and Tennessee, Erlanger is the comprehensive resource for a 63-county service area, as well as the tertiary care facility central to the area’s Regional Trauma System covering Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina. This means Erlanger is ready to provide the most complex and highly specialized trauma care 24/7. Our Trauma Center is a comprehensive care system that includes:

Dedicated Shock/Trauma Bays for treatment and stabilization
Dedicated Trauma Operating Rooms
Trauma Intensive Care Unit
Neuro-Trauma Intensive Care Unit
Trauma Stepdown Unit
Trauma Surgical Unit
Six full-time dedicated Trauma/Acute Care Surgeons
Inpatient Rehab Services
Dedicated Trauma Nurse Navigator
Care Managers
Trauma Critical Care Nurse Clinicians (Red Shirts)
Specialized Trauma ICU Nurses
Designated Trauma Nurse Practitioners
Rigorous Performance Improvement and Patient Safety Program
ED-ICU Job Share Program
Trauma Research Program
Community Injury Prevention Program

High-Level Trauma Care

The region’s only trauma and acute care surgeons on duty 24/7 – with round-the-clock coverage for services such as orthopedics, plastics and neurosurgery
The region’s only Level I accredited hyperbaric oxygen program for wound therapy
The region’s only academic surgery critical care fellowship programs, training tomorrow’s physicians in the latest techniques