Trauma Center
Providence Holy Cross Trauma Center provides around-the-clock emergency services to the most severely injured in the San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita Valley communities. The Trauma Center has been a part of the Los Angeles Trauma System for more than twenty-five years. The Los Angeles County trauma system is made up of thirteen level I and II trauma centers with defined catchment areas that serve ten million people in 88 cites over 4,000 square miles, receiving more than 20,000 trauma activations annually according to the Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. As an open catchment trauma center, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center meticulously coordinates patient transportation within the LA system, ensuring that patients who have sustained traumatic injuries within our geographical area can get to the trauma center for treatment within the crucial 30-minute time period. As a Level II trauma center, our Center has specialized programs, equipment and staff, including a trauma surgeon, available at all times.
Our trauma team has treated victims of plane crashes, train crashes, car crashes and bike crashes. They've worked miracles on victims of freak accidents, delivered newborns in cases where their mothers were severely injured, and saved gunshot victims for whom the physicians themselves held little hope. Providence Holy Cross Trauma Center participated in treating the injured passengers from the Metrolink collision in Chatsworth that killed 25 and injured more than 100. In 2008, the Providence Holy Cross Trauma Center received Verification Status from the American College of Surgeons, acknowledging our commitment to the highest standards for a community-based hospital trauma program.