WAC 246-976-540   Trauma service designation -- Outreach, public education, provider education, and research.  


LEVELS
A facility with a designated trauma service must have: I II III IV V
(1) An outreach program with telephone and on-site consultations with physicians of the community and outlying areas regarding trauma care; X X      
(2) A public education program addressing injury prevention or documentation of participation in regional injury prevention activities; X X X    
(3) Training, including: X        
(a) A formal program of continuing trauma care education for: X X      
(i) Staff physicians; X X      
(ii) Nurses; X X      
(iii) Allied health care professionals; X X      
(iv) Community physicians; X X      
(v) Prehospital personnel; X X      
(b) Residency programs accredited by the accreditation council of graduate medical education, with a commitment to training physicians in trauma management; X        
(c) Make the facility available for initial and maintenance training of invasive manipulative skills for prehospital personnel; X X X X  
(4) A trauma research program. X        




[Statutory Authority: RCW 70.168.060 and 70.168.070. 04-01-041, § 246-976-540, filed 12/10/03, effective 1/10/04.]