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REGIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
ON TRAUMA SERVICES |
| The Regional Advisory
Committee on Trauma Services was formed early in 2005 by
the Lee County Trauma Services District Board of Directors.
The Regional Advisory Committee is a key component in the
process of involving the citizens served by the
five-county trauma district. This 13-member
committee is comprised of representatives from each of the five
counties served in the Lee County Trauma Services District. Each
representative brings a vast array of knowledge and
experience from which they contribute innovative ways of
thinking with respect to educating the public about the Lee Memorial Trauma Center. Another key function of the Regional
Advisory Committee is to monitor the advent of possible revenue
streams from which the LMHS trauma center could be funded.
The
recommendations of the advisory committee are valued by the Lee
County Trauma District Board of Directors, and the members' ability to
monitor the "pulse of the community" is regarded as vital to the
success of the LMHS trauma center mission. The Regional
Advisory Committee on Trauma Services for fiscal year 2006 is:
- Isabel Gutentag, RN CO-CHAIR Former Regional Political Aide (representing Lee County)
- Marilyn Stout, CO-CHAIR A director
on the Lee Memorial Health System Board of Directors and the Lee
County Trauma Services District Board of Directors
(representing Lee County)
- Maureen Garrard, RN Legislative aide to
Representative Michael Grant (representing Charlotte
County)
- Jim Coletta, County Commissioner Collier County
(representing Collier County)
- Joe Flint, Clerk of Court, Glades County (representing
Glades County)
- Patricia Harrington Baird, Ph.D. (representing
Hendry County)
- Carol Barclay, Past President-The League of Women Voters of
Lee County (representing Lee County)
- David Dilley, Ph.D. President-The Financial
Round Table of SWFL (representing Lee County)
- Sal Grosso, V.P. Cape Coral Civic Assoc. (representing
Lee County)
- Dick Helms, CPA Miller, Helms & Folk
(representing Lee County)
- Steve Hooper, Esq. Lee County Justice Center
(representing Lee County)
- Erlene Sanders (representing Lee County)
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Since the Florida Legislature
created the state's first trauma legislation in 1982, no consistent and
sustained funding source for the trauma centers has been established on
the state level.
In 1982 when Florida's first
trauma legislation was passed, there were 50 trauma centers state-wide.
Today, there are 21 state designated trauma centers operating in
Florida.
The Florida trauma centers that have surrendered their
trauma designation have done so due to the overwhelming financial
commitments required to make a trauma center a clinically viable
operation.
In 2004, more than 31,000
Florida residents and visitors were treated in a trauma center in
Florida.
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