Life Threatening Trauma System: The Health System
The health system (GHS) is comprised of 10 satellite clinics, a teaching hospital, multiple on-campus ambulatory care centers, and a level IV trauma center. GHS is well known for its trauma center. A well known slogan throughout the metro Atlanta area is “take me to GHS if I am dying, because GHS will save your life, otherwise don’t.” GHS is noted for providing care to Medicaid, Medicare, indigent and uninsured patients. Health care insurance companies would not approve for patient care at the hospital unless, care involved life threatening trauma. The patient who presented with health insurance was stabilized and transferred to another health care facility on the insurance provider list. A task of the quality management department specifically,