Virginia Commonwealth University
Medical Center (VCUMC) is central Virginia’s only level I
State Designated Trauma Center. The Level I status emanates
form the program’s diverse mission of clinical excellence,
education, and research. VCUMC provides institutional
commitment to leadership and community service. The mission of
the Trauma Program is to serve the health care needs of the
trauma patient through provisions of direct care and
coordination of systems providing the delivery of
multidisciplinary services to the severely injured patient.
The program strives to achieve the following goals:
Offer quality
evidence-based patient care to injured patient
Provide and facilitate
education of multidisciplinary caregivers and assure that
credentialing standards are maintained.
Facilitated quality
improvement efforts as the optimal strategy in the
resolution of individual and systems problems that impact
the provisions of quality of care.
Provide for the conduct,
critical analysis and implementation of research based
findings to enhance the care provided for critical care,
trauma and burn patients.
Develop and implement
evidence based practice innovations to promote to injury
prevention and control violence.
