Daily Express – Western Pacific Island News – U.S. Naval Hospital Guam to become trauma center

The U.S. Naval Hospital Guam is moving toward becoming a trauma center, according to the hospital’s medical director, Dr. Sally Westcott. Dr. Westcott shared the news with the Emergency Medical Services Board and the Children’s Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee during their meeting on Tuesday. “Just wanted to let everybody know that the hospital is moving toward becoming a trauma center. There’s no real (estimated time of arrival) at this time,” Westcott said. She said part of becoming a trauma center involves pre-hospital trauma training. “I’m currently working on getting the hospital to offer PHTLS, which is pre-hospital trauma life support, to federal firefighters, as well as (tactical emergency casualty care), which is a variation of (tactical casualty care), and then I hope to be able to open that up to Guam firefighters.”