Hendrick Trauma Center
The First Name in Trauma Services

Meeting a Growing Need for the Region’s Only Level III Trauma Center

Hendrick Responds to Growth in Trauma Services
Every day of the year, 24 hours a day, Hendrick keeps a fundamental promise to the community: to be there, doors open, whenever we are needed.

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Hendrick Trauma Center sees more than 51,000 patients a year. This amounts to 980 visits per week, 140 visits per day. If the Hendrick Trauma Center were located in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, it would be the third busiest trauma center, behind Parkland Hospital and Baylor Medical Center. This expansion will provide the new Trauma Center capacity to see 70,000 patients per year.

For many, the primary access to healthcare is through the doors of the Trauma Center. Abilene continues to grow as a regional medical center and the new trauma center at Hendrick will only enhance that image. Hendrick confidently looks forward to the next decade as we once again renew our commitment to the community. As always, Hendrick’s goal is to get people the right care, at the right time, in the right setting. We are proud to be a part of this wonderful place we all call home.

Hendrick Trauma Center is the only Level III trauma center in the region. Level III Trauma Centers must offer continuous general surgical coverage and can manage the initial care of serious injuries. The Trauma Center also has added staff, including two physicians and four RNs. Two separate entrances, a walk-in entrance and an ambulance bay, will allow staff to triage patients more efficiently.

Patients will be triaged one of three ways, emergency care, urgent care and non-urgent care. Thirty-three treatment rooms include six non-urgent care rooms, 12 urgent care rooms and eight critical care rooms. The emergency care area includes four cardiac rooms, two trauma rooms, one decontamination room and two mental health evaluation rooms.

Hendrick Trauma Center also features state-of-the-art equipment. Computer monitors are equipped to receive X-rays, CT scans and lab results for physician assessment. Patients will stay in the Trauma Center for X-rays or CT scans. Both the X-ray lab and the CT lab will have an on-site tech available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A locator system can track a specific nurse or doctor from a patient room. SpectraLink wireless phones will allow trauma center personnel to promptly communicate over a designated wireless system.

Trauma Center Features

Construction Facts

• 31,100 square feet (8,100 square feet in former Trauma Center)
• 2,100 cubic yards of concrete
• 160 tons of steel
• 350,000 linear feet of wire
• 200,000 bricks
• Approximately 220 workers
• Two entrances - ambulance bay and walk in

33 examination rooms:

• Six fast track rooms
• 12 urgent care rooms
• Six observation rooms
• Eight critical rooms:
  • Four cardiac rooms
  • Two trauma rooms
  • One decontamination room
• Two mental health evaluation room
• X-ray lab
• CT Scan lab
• Care Facts

Care Facts

• 51,000 visits per year currently
• 980 visits per week
• 140 visits per day
• 70,000 patient visit capacity per year in new Trauma Center
• 10 physicians (includes two additional physicians)
• 51 RNs (includes four additional RNs)
• Five techs added
• 3:1 patient to nurse ratio
• 6:1 patient to tech ratio
• 417,000 average steps per staff member during a month

Generous Donors Make Project Possible
Through the generous donations of foundations, physicians, Children’s Miracle Network, Hendrick Medical Center Auxiliary and many individuals, more than $5 million has been raised over the last year to make the dream of a new Hendrick Trauma Center a reality.

Hendrick Health System gratefully recognizes and honors these major donors whose generosity contributed toward construction of this facility: Dodge Jones Foundation, Shelton Family Foundation, J.E. & L.E. Mabee Foundation, Diane Graves Owen Foundation, Meadows Foundation, Hendrick Medical Center Auxiliary and Children's Miracle Network. A painting, by Jack Maxwell, depicting Hendrick Medical Center Auxilians, honors the one million dollar gift from the Hendrick Medical Center Auxiliary. A play area for children is made possible by a donation from Children's Miracle Network.

The cost of the expanded Trauma Center including construction and equipment is approximately eight million dollars. Hendrick Trauma Center was built using local contractors and subcontractors. Rose Builders, Inc. is the general contractor and Tittle Luther Partnership is the architect.

To refer a patient call the Transfer Hotline
1.800.670.6092

Hendrick Trauma Center can be reached at
325.670.2151

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