Children’s Hospital Annual Report
“As someone who worked in emergency departments for many years, I was frankly wary about what we might experience in terms of patient care and had low expectations, given the late hour and the high patient demand that is so common in EDs. Boy, was I wrong. From the moment we checked Shea in, every staff member we encountered was absolutely exceptional!”
– Liz Collentine-Cole, whose daughter Shea was treated in the emergency room after she had difficulty breathing.
UC Davis Medical Center is a level 1 trauma center, the highest level possible, as verified by the American College of Surgeons and is the only level 1 trauma center for children in inland Northern California. Jonathan Kohler, M.D., director of pediatric trauma, leads our level 1 pediatric trauma team.
Emergency medicine physician James F. Holmes, M.D., M.P.H., has been appointed the chair and Bo Tomas Brofeldt Endowed Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. With more than three decades of service at UC Davis Health, Holmes is a distinguished clinical epidemiologist whose research focuses on the initial evaluation and care of injured patients — particularly children — and his work has significantly advanced understanding of CT utilization following trauma.
