Central New York's only Level I Trauma Center serving the 14 counties stretching from Canada to the Pennsylvania border.
Each year, more then 140,000 Americans die from injuries, and one in three Americans suffer from a nonfatal injury. Trauma is a major contributor to:
-Loss of work
-Increase in health care costs
-Shortage of Intensive Care Unit beds
Trauma is a physical injury caused by an external force to the body. This force may be from a motor vehicle accident, gunshot, stabbing or fall from height. Major trauma includes patients with multiple systems involvement who require immediate intervention to save their life.
The mission of SUNY Upstate Medical University is to improve the health of the communities we serve through education, biomedical research and health care.
