The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary.

Six years ago, an expert panel made a strong suggestion to the White House: set up a national system to care for patients with traumatic injuries, which lead to about 30,000 deaths every year. “In the ...

Serious injury is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 1 and 44, and after cancer and the heart disease-stroke complex, injury results in the most years of life lost. Injury ...

Ed Knight was taken to HCA’S Chippenham Hospital in Virginia after cutting his arm in a fall from a ladder. He was billed a $17,000 trauma team “activation” fee for what the hospital called a “mild” ...

One third of severely injured trauma patients in the United States are first treated at hospitals designated as Level III or non-trauma centers, and less than half of those patients get transferred ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WJET/WFXP) — Following the approval of the closure of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pennsylvania now has one fewer accredited trauma center. According to the Pennsylvania ...

Anna Beth Julius was on her way to work in Springdale on Halloween of 2017 when a deer jumped into her car windshield, knocking her unconscious. When she woke up, she was in Springfield, Mo. She found ...