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SBUMC’s Trauma Service places in top four percent of trauma centers nationwide

Critical injuries can do everything from change a life to end it. However, immediate and excellent trauma care can help to minimize damage and prevent death.

When The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - the nation's leading Federal agency for research on health care quality, costs, outcomes, and patient safety issued a new report entitled "Survival Measurement and Reporting Trial for Trauma (SMARTT), Stony Brook University Medical Center's Trauma Service placed in the top four percent of trauma centers nationwide, with the lowest mortality for victims of injury.

As the only Level I Trauma Center in Suffolk County, SBUMC receives the most critically injured patients from all points of Suffolk County, and from every community and Level II Trauma hospital in the region, including Brookhaven Hospital, Huntington Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital in Islip, Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, Southside Hospital, Southampton Hospital, and Mather Hospital and St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson.

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