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Regional Trauma Center

Phone:
218.249.5616
1.800.321.3790

Location:
915 East First Street Duluth, MN 55802

Hours:
24 Hours/Day

Medical Staff

Regional Trauma Center

St. Luke’s Regional Trauma Center is the region’s leader in the treatment of trauma patients. Everyone who needs to care for you will be there in your most critical moments—from the chaplain who waits with your family to the neurosurgeon standing by. It’s coordinated. It’s in control. It’s complete trauma care.

Trauma program highlights

  • 1975 - St. Luke’s established the region’s first trauma program
  • 1980 - St. Luke’s earned the distinction of a federally designated Regional Trauma Center for the 19-county region of northeastern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
  • 1990 - The American College of Surgeons verified St. Luke’s as a Level II Trauma Center
  • 1994, 1997, and 2000 – St. Luke’s re-verified as a Level II Trauma Center

Always Ready

St. Luke’s has an entire team of experts designed to provide every trauma service, including: emergency trauma care, microsurgery and limb attachment, open heart surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, obstetrics/newborn services, ophthalmology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, otolaryngology, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, physical medicine and sport medicine, plastic surgery, psychiatry, the Mental Health Resource Center, urology, vascular/thoracic surgery, the Regional Vascular Institute, the Regional Stroke Program and rehabilitative services.

Life Link III

Life Link III is a comprehensive transportation system providing transport for patients in Minnesota, Wisconsin and throughout the United States via helicopter, ground ambulance and airplane ambulance. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Life Link III has helicopter bases in St. Cloud, Hutchinson and Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and New Richmond and Rice Lake, Wisconsin. By strategically locating resources throughout the region, the time to reach patients is significantly decreased, and positive outcomes can be directly related to a shorter time to reach definitive care.

Life Link III—the most immediate choice for:

  • Severe trauma
  • Head or spinal cord injuries
  • Limb reattachment
  • Burns
  • Near drowning/SCUBA accidents
  • Cardiac emergencies
  • High-risk obstetrical emergencies
  • Acute medical conditions
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