North Carolina has developed an inclusive trauma system that is organized, multi-disciplinary and evidence-based in its approaches to providing quality care and improving measurable outcomes for all defined injured patients.
EMS, hospitals, other health systems, and clinicians participate in defined roles with leadership, advocacy, injury prevention, education, clinical care, performance improvement, and research resulting in integrated trauma care.
For general questions regarding North Carolina’s Trauma System, send an email to heather.majernik@dhhs.nc.gov
THE NORTH CAROLINA TRAUMA CENTER
Trauma Centers are reviewed, with a site visit, for renewal state designation three years after the initial state designation. Thereafter, a state renewal designation site visit occurs every four years. Should the trauma center wish to obtain or maintain American College of Surgeons (ACS) verification/reverification, they may seek a state renewal designation in conjunction with an ACS site visit every three years to meet the ACS review requirement.
- Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte
- Initial designation 1990
- American College of Surgeons (ACS) Verification
- Levine Children’s Hospital
- ACS Verification Level I Pediatric Center
- Duke University Hospital, Durham
- Initial designation 1982
- ACS Verification
- ECU Medical Center, Greenville
- Initial designation 1985
- ACS Verification
- Maynard’s Children’s Hospital
- ACS Verification Level I Pediatric Center
- University of NC (UNC) Hospitals, Chapel Hill
- Initial designation 1982
- ACS Verification
- ABA Verification
- NC Children’s Hospital
- ACS Verification Level I Pediatric Center
- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist , Winston-Salem
- Initial designation 1982
- ACS Verification
- ABA Verification
- Brenner Children’s Hospital
- ACS Verification Level I Pediatric Center
- WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Raleigh Campus
- Initial designation 2006
- ACS Verification
- Mission Hospitals, Asheville
- Initial designation 1995
- Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Greensboro
- Initial designation 1984
- ACS Verification
- Novant New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington
- Initial designation 1989
- Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center
- Initial Designation 2016
- Atrium Health Cabarrus
- Initial designation 2000
- Atrium Health Cleveland, Shelby
- Initial designation 1997
- Caromont Regional Medical Center , Gastonia
- Initial designation, 2012
- Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville
- Initial Designation 2015
- Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune
- Initial Designation 2018
- WakeMed Cary Hospital
- Initial Designation 2019
- Womack Army Medical Center
- Initial Designation 2019
- ACS Verification 2019
