Nevada's Only ACS-verified Level I Trauma Center and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center

The Trauma Center's highly specialized medical personnel and dedicated resources are focused on injured patients receiving life-saving trauma care that meets or exceeds the standards found at top-rated trauma centers across the United States.

Offering the highest level of trauma care in the state of Nevada, UMC is a core component of Nevada's emergency medical system. The level of care for injured patients is continuously pursued through clinical care services, active research, and education and prevention programs. The facility and its staff members provide 24-hour care, standing by to receive, stabilize, and treat those whose lives are threatened by multi-system, brain, and orthopaedic injuries, and those at risk for multiple system organ failure.

The Trauma Center services the two million residents of Clark County and the 32 million visitors per year. Service area consists of 10,000 square miles including Southern Nevada, parts of California, Utah and Arizona.

From this service area, approximately 79% of primary admissions arrive by ambulance and 19% arrive by air.

Built in 1992, the 18,000 square-foot Trauma Center includes a well-equipped 11-bed resuscitation area, three operating suites, a 14-bed trauma intensive care unit as well as state-of-the-art rapid sequence CT scanner and an angiography suite. Adjacent to the building is a 288 space parking structure with a helipad for air transport of trauma patients.

In 2004, the UMC Trauma Center treated over 11,600 injured patients. Traffic-related trauma is the leading cause of traumatic death. The hospital works closely with local, state and national organizations to promote public awareness of trauma as a public health epidemic.