The Crozer Regional Trauma Center at Crozer-Chester Medical Center is the only trauma center in Delaware County, serving a population of 600,000. Since 1987, it has met the high standards of care required to earn its designation as a Regional Level II Trauma Center by the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation. The Trauma Center treats about 2,000 trauma and burn patients each year.

Prehospital Care

It is highly important that trauma patients be transported to a designated trauma center as quickly as possible. That is why the Crozer Regional Trauma Center team works closely with our community’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) professionals to provide lifesaving prehospital care at the scene of an emergency.

A Team Approach to Trauma Care

A trauma center is much more than a hospital emergency department. A team of specially trained physicians, nurses and other health care professionals is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to care for traumatic injuries. The team includes board-certified general surgeons with additional training or interest in trauma surgery and critical care, and nurses certified in trauma nursing. Both nurses and physicians are required to maintain annual continuing education related to trauma to ensure the provision of state-of-the-art trauma care. A trauma surgeon is always available in the hospital, ready to care for trauma patients.

Anesthesiologists are available around the clock to assist in providing diagnostic and interventional radiologic services and operative services. Additionally, neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons are immediately available to the Trauma Center, if needed. 

Trauma victims are cared for at Crozer’s Shock Trauma Unit. While on the unit, the patients are cared for by the hospitals’ multidisciplinary trauma team. Members of this team complete daily rounds in the morning and continue to reassess the patient around the clock to ensure that the plan of care is implemented.

Crozer’s inpatient care for trauma victims includes special protocols aimed at enhancing the healing process and preventing complications of trauma. An example is the medical center’s protocol for controlling blood sugar in trauma patients.

When Special Care is Needed

Sometimes, trauma victims need more specialized care – such as children, or patients with spinal cord injuries. Those patients are provided with life-saving emergency treatment and then transported to one of the specialized (Level One) facilities in the area.

Community Outreach

The professionals of the Crozer Regional Trauma Center are dedicated to educate the community in injury prevention and trauma care education through the community outreach programs for youth, adults/seniors and health care professionals.

For More Information

Additional questions about the Crozer Regional Trauma Center can be directed to 610-447-6090.