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Old 04-28-2021, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by allsport View Post
Hospitals are rated by the JCAHO for ability to care for emergencies. A trauma center must have board certified trauma docs in the building 24 hours a day. If you have a major accident with life threatening injuries and need that trauma center to save your life, you need the chopper to get you there. Without it, you are dead so making fun of it just show how little you understand about how healthcare works. It is also shows how little you know about the number of life threatening head injuries happen on golf carts around here with people driving them that have no business on them.
The nearest Level 1 (Trauma One) hospital is Orlando Regional. Next closest is Shands (Gainesville) or Tampa.