Services

Trauma Center

Welcome to Orange Park Trauma Center!

Trauma centers expect the unexpected

If you suffer severe traumatic injuries, having fast access to a trauma center is critical to your survival. Getting there within the golden hour – the first hour after injury – drastically increases your chance of survival.

A trauma center provides trauma surgeons, neurosurgeons, other surgical and non-surgical specialists, medical personnel and equipment for immediate and follow-up treatment, 24-hours-a-day/7-days-a-week.

Trauma care access is critical to the safety of Floridians

Only about 38 percent of automobile accident victims and other trauma patients in Florida receive treatment in a designated trauma center. Florida’s goal is 65 percent.

That’s why the University of South Florida and HCA’s Florida hospitals are creating a statewide trauma network.

In November 2011, Orange Park Medical Center began services as a Provisional Level II Trauma Center seeking designation by the Florida Department of Health, Office of Trauma. The official designation takes about a year to fully review and approve.

As a provisional trauma center we completely function as a designated Level II with trained surgical and clinical staff to support the trauma program.