Denver Health houses the Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Center, the area’s academic Level I Trauma Center.

The Trauma Center has one of the best survival rates in the nation. Denver Health’s trauma team has attained an overall survival rate of 96 percent for blunt trauma, such as motor vehicle crashes and ski accidents, 92.5 percent for vascular injuries (both aorta and carotid) and 86 percent for penetrating trauma, such as impalements and gunshot wounds. The center also manages an average of 90 major (grade IV/V) hepatic injuries annually, and specializes in orthopaedic trauma and reimplantation.

The trauma team is comprised of emergency medicine physicians, surgeons, orthopaedists, neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists and urologists; some who are world-renowned. The team also consists of outstanding trauma and critical care nurses, who care for more than 2,000 of the region’s most severely injured patients each year. They work together as a team to save lives every day.

Led by internationally renowned surgeon Dr. Ernest E. “Gene” Moore, the Trauma Team is committed to fulfilling its mission of providing outstanding care of the injured patient, continuing to be a national leader in trauma and EMS education, and conducting nationally recognized basic and clinical research.

The Rocky Mountain Regional Level I Trauma Center recently received accreditation from the American College of Surgeons (ACS), recertifying the center with no deficiencies.  This was the sixth consecutive time the center has received accreditation from the ACS.