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DATE: Thursday, June 22, 2006

TIME: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

LOCATION:
Gibbon Building
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
South 10 th Street Entrance
Between Chestnut and Sansom Streets

(Note: Meet Media Relations Rep. in 10 th St. lobby)

EVENT:
Trauma injuries can occur even during daily activities like riding a bike or in a car. Organizations in the Philadelphia area who respond to such traumas want the public to know how to prevent them and will demonstrate these measures at the Trauma Fair for Prevention and Outreach sponsored by Thomas Jefferson University Hospital’s Trauma Program and the Trauma Nurse Committee.

Representatives from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), Magee Rehab, the Philadelphia Fire Department, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania State Police, the Pennsylvania division of the American Trauma Society, as well as Jefferson University Hospital’s trauma team will show ways in which people can act in a safer manner to avoid preventable traumas.

Representatives from Jefferson University Hospital departments including the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center, JeffSTAT, nursery, pediatrics, nursing, environmental health and safety and security will also provide trauma prevention tips.

The Trauma Program at Jefferson will also be selling bicycle helmets for $8.00 each.

Background:
Jefferson is an officially designated Level 1 Regional

Resource Trauma Center. It is one of only 18 hospitals in

the U.S. that are both a designated Trauma Center and a Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center. Patients with the most serious injuries are brought to Jefferson by the emergency medical squads and by physician-initiated transfer from other hospitals. As a Level 1 Trauma Center, Jefferson also conducts research and continuing education programs for health professionals in trauma care.