McLaren Lapeer Region, part of statewide McLaren Health Care and Lapeer County’s only verified trauma center, has earned reverification as a Level II trauma center from the America College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma.
Reverification is earned following a thorough onsite evaluation of the hospital’s trauma processes, patient outcomes, staff credentials, and compliance to the standards set forth by the ACS.
Requiring reverification every three years, McLaren Lapeer Region has maintained its Level II designation uninterrupted since 2013. Medical centers must meet the rigorous — though essential — criteria that ensure institutional performance and care capabilities establishes by the ACS.
“Through every survey process and reverification achievement, our promise to support the community by providing this enhanced level of skilled care is renewed,” said Tim Vargas, McLaren Lapeer Region President and CEO. “These evaluations to earn reverification are an incredibly precise and exacting process, and we are very fortunate to have the expertise and knowledge of an experienced trauma leadership team. We as an organization are grateful for their efforts that made this possible.”
McLaren Lapeer Region met the ACS’s criteria, which is to provide “provide prompt assessment, resuscitation, surgery, intensive care, and stabilization of injury” to patients in an emergency situation. The hospital’s emergency department is staffed with trauma-trained clinicians and equipped with the technology and services to provide 24/7 care by emergency physicians, with the availability of general surgeons, anesthesiology, radiology services, and operating room staff.
More information on the level of care offered at the McLaren Lapeer Region emergency department — and patients can check-in online before their arrival — at mclaren.org/lapeerER.
About McLaren Lapeer Region
McLaren Lapeer Region is a 222-bed acute care facility located in Lapeer, Michigan, and is the primary provider of health care services to Lapeer County and the surrounding area. McLaren Lapeer Region has received national recognition from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid for clinical excellence in orthopedics, pneumonia, congestive heart failure and surgical care. The facility maintains a verified Level II trauma designation and provides comprehensive care in a 29-bed Emergency Center along with specialized services for heart, cancer, orthopedic and general surgery services, physical medicine and rehabilitation, women’s services, wound care services and sleep disorders. Learn more at mclaren.org/lapeerregion.
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 13 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Learn more at mclaren.org.