TULSA, Okla. — The Saint Francis Hospital Level One Trauma Center showed off how it handles medical emergencies on Tuesday by doing a full-scale trauma drill with robotic, simulated patients. That ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past year, several hospitals have earned new trauma center designations, expanding access to emergency care in their communities. At the same time, others have chosen to downgrade or close ...