Advocates for the hospitals say that the funding is far less than the estimated $80 million the state’s 15 trauma hospitals need to expand services to underserved areas.
According to the report, nearly 1 million Georgians live more than 50 miles from a trauma care center, and approximately 700 Georgians die annually because of inadequate trauma care.
Read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s report on the Georgia trauma care funding cuts.
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