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Health officer highlights Region 6 rural health plans, trauma and EMS priorities
Summary
Health Officer Dave Welsh told the board Franklin County is participating in Region 6 rural health transformation work on trauma care, EMS capacity and stop-the-bleed training; he encouraged planning projects that state reviewers can measure.
Health Officer Dave Welsh gave the board an overview of Franklin County’s involvement in Region 6 of the state’s Rural Health Transformation program, describing trauma and injury-reduction work groups and a proposal to study whether a regional hospital could become a Level 3 trauma center.
“There's several initiatives ... one of the things we were working on is to get one of the hospitals in Region 6 to consider being a trauma center. That'd be a level 3,” Welsh said. He described steps already taken — regional facilitation, state-level review, and potential seed funding for planning — and listed other RHT priorities such as EMS capacity surveys, adding up to three vehicles across the region over five years, distribution of stop-the-bleed kits, helmets, and education for injury reduction. Welsh asked the board to think about projects that could demonstrate measurable impact to the state when applying for restored HFI funds.
