Steward Health Care System and Partners HealthCare, both based in Boston, have made a clinical affiliation agreement for trauma services, according to an internal announcement at Steward by Michael Callum, MD, executive vice president of Steward and president of Steward Medical Group.
Under the agreement, Steward will transfer its most severely injured patients from emergency rooms at its 10 community hospitals to Partners' Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, according to a Boston Globe report. Both hospitals have Level 1 trauma centers, which is the highest level.
A trauma patient at Steward may not be sent to one of these hospitals only if she or he has another preference or the emergency medical technician transports the patient directly from an accident to the nearest trauma center, according to the report.
Partners will also help several Steward hospitals achieve Level III trauma designations, which would enable them to treat less critical cases. In addition, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston will send its surgical residents to Mass General for trauma care training instead of to Bay State Medical Center in Springfield, where residents currently go.
Partners and Steward also plan to merge emergency department clinical records and imaging scans, according to the report.
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Under the agreement, Steward will transfer its most severely injured patients from emergency rooms at its 10 community hospitals to Partners' Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, according to a Boston Globe report. Both hospitals have Level 1 trauma centers, which is the highest level.
A trauma patient at Steward may not be sent to one of these hospitals only if she or he has another preference or the emergency medical technician transports the patient directly from an accident to the nearest trauma center, according to the report.
Partners will also help several Steward hospitals achieve Level III trauma designations, which would enable them to treat less critical cases. In addition, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston will send its surgical residents to Mass General for trauma care training instead of to Bay State Medical Center in Springfield, where residents currently go.
Partners and Steward also plan to merge emergency department clinical records and imaging scans, according to the report.
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