New Interactive GIS Shows Proximity to Trauma Care

According to its website, The American Trauma Society “is dedicated to the elimination of needless death and disability from injury.” The ATS recently released an interactive map that shows emergency care coverage across the United States. Through this GIS, users can examine how access to emergency care is distributed across the country. You can query the map based on the mode of transportation (ambulance or helicopter) in addition to the time it takes to get to the nearest trauma center (45 minutes, 60 minutes or longer). With this map, you can easily see the best trauma coverage is located around population centers – especially the northeast – while rural areas in the south and midwest have noticeably absent coverage. This map also allows you to export to a .jpeg image of the map and you can calculate the percentages of area and population that fall within the coverage zones.

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