Trauma system means an organized approach to providing care to trauma patients that provides personnel, facilities, and equipment for effective and coordinated trauma care. The trauma system shall identify facilities with specific capabilities to provide care and provide that trauma patients be treated at a designated trauma center appropriate to the patient’s level of injury. Trauma system includes prevention, prehospital or out-of-hospital care, hospital care, and rehabilitative services.

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 71-8235

  • Hospital: means a health care facility licensed under the Health Care Facility Licensure Act or a comparable health care facility operated by the federal government or located and licensed in another state. See Nebraska Statutes 71-8219
  • Rehabilitative services: means a system or collection of comprehensive medical and therapy services that are interdisciplinary, coordinated, and resource-intense with the goal of restoring physical, cognitive, psychological, social, and vocational functioning so that an individual can return to home, work, or society, becoming a productive participant in his or her community. See Nebraska Statutes 71-8229
  • Trauma: means a single-system or multisystem injury requiring immediate medical or surgical intervention or treatment to prevent death or permanent disability. See Nebraska Statutes 71-8232
  • Trauma system: means an organized approach to providing care to trauma patients that provides personnel, facilities, and equipment for effective and coordinated trauma care. See Nebraska Statutes 71-8235
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