Indiana has 8 ACS Certified hospitals. Three are Level 1 and five are Level 2 trauma centers:

• Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis (1)
• Riley Children’s Hospital, Indianapolis (1)
• Memorial Hospital of South Bend (2)
• Parkview Hospital, Fort Wayne (2)
• Deaconess Hospital, Evansville (2)
• St. Mary’s Medical Center, Evansville (2)
• Wishard Health Services, Indianapolis (1)
• Lutheran Hospital of Indiana, Fort Wayne (2)

ISDH is considering using the ACS Level 3 designation and creating a state Level 4 designation as it develops an inclusive voluntary trauma system.

Trauma contact at IHA: Spencer Grover, vice president, sgrover@ihaconnect.org or 317/423-7729.

Trauma Contact at Indiana State Department of Health

Susan D. Perkins, RN, BSN, CCRC
Trauma System Manager/Rural Health Liaison
Indiana State Department of Health
2 North Meridian St., 2 Selig
Indianapolis, IN 46204
email: sperkins@isdh.in.gov  
Phone:  317/234-2890
Fax:  317/233-7761

Trauma facts:

• Injury is the leading cause of death from 1 year to 34 years of age in Indiana and in the U.S. More than 95,000 Hoosiers are hospitalized and over 5,000 die from injuries each year. Source: Injuries in Indiana data report, ISDH Injury Prevention Program, 2005

• Trauma refers to people who have sustained severe injuries, requiring rapid evaluation and transport to specific hospitals with trauma care capabilities, staffed and equipped to provide the comprehensive care needed. All hospital emergency departments are not trauma centers, as many believe.

• States with trauma systems have a review process to designate hospitals according to the level of care that can be provided to injured patients – ranging from emergency department evaluation and stabilization in smaller hospitals to the most comprehensive levels of care provided in hospitals verified by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT).