Current Trauma Status Report - Southern Nevada Health District

Trauma Center Capacity Benchmark Data
The table below provides a trauma center capacity comparison among the following metropolitan
statistical areas (MSAs): Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Memphis and Las Vegas. Specifically, it shows
the number of trauma centers in the MSA, the number of trauma resuscitation beds, the number of
trauma centers per 1,000,000 population (based on 2002 MSA population estimates), and the
number of resuscitation beds per 1,000,000 population.
The MSA with the highest rate of trauma centers per capita is Salt Lake City (3.0 per 1,000,000
population), while the MSA with the lowest rate is Las Vegas (0.6). Looking at the utilization rate in
terms of trauma resuscitation beds per 1,000,000 population, Salt Lake City again ranks highest with
12. Las Vegas ranks second with 7 trauma resuscitation beds per 1,000,000.
Factoring in the visitor population to the cities lowers the rate of trauma centers per capita, as well as
the resuscitation bed rate per capita.
Although several studies have provided inventories of the number of trauma centers nationwide, they
have not attempted to measure capacity and compare capacity with population.
Trauma Center Capacity Benchmark Data
Trauma
Metropolitan
Number
of
Trauma
Centers per
Number of
Trauma
Trauma
Resuscitation
Beds per 2002
2002
Average Annualized MSA
Trauma
Centers per
Resuscitation
Beds per
1,000,000
Statistical Area Trauma 2002 MSA 1,000,000 Resuscitation 1,000,000 Annual Nights Visitor Population 1,000,000 Pop +
(MSA)
Centers Population Population Beds Population Visitors Stayed Population + Visitors Pop + Visitors Visitors
Salt Lake City, UT 1 3 997,197 3.0 12 12 8,000,000 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
New Orleans, LA 1 1 1,315,254 0.8 3 2 8,500,000 3.4 79,178 1,394,432 0.7 2.2
Memphis, TN 2 2 1,230,554 1.6 5 4 8,000,000 3 65,753 1,296,307 1.5 3.9
Las Vegas, NV 1 1 1,578,332 0.6 11 7 35,071,504 3.4 326,693 1,905,025 0.5 5.8
Notes:
1 Only Level I trauma center(s).
2
One Level I (a stand alone trauma center) and one Level II.
N/A: Not available
Source: Individual State trauma stakeholders, individual Convention & Visitor Bureaus, State Data Centers, & US Census Bureau.
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