Pre-review call participants should include the trauma medical director, the trauma program manager, trauma registrars, the site visit coordinator and the navigators. The call will also give participants the chance to test the technical functionality of the virtual review platform. This call will allow the trauma center team to meet their reviewers, discuss expectations and ask questions about the visit agenda. A conference call will take place about two weeks before a scheduled virtual visit. The navigator should be familiar with the trauma program as well as the structure and content of patient charts. Garcia clarified that the site visit coordinator cannot also act as a navigator. One navigator will be assigned to each reviewer. The navigators will help ACS reviewers access EMR records, PI documentation and imaging as needed. Garcia, the site visit coordinator should not be the trauma program manager or the trauma medical director. The site visit coordinator will be responsible for tasks such as setting up the virtual communication platform and making sure all liaisons are logged in at the right time.
TRAUMA CENTER LEVELS EXPLAINED VERIFICATION
Vice Chair, ACS Verification Review Committee To facilitate the virtual review process, trauma centers will need to assign staff to perform two new roles - site visit coordinator and site visit navigator. In fact, the ACS has no plans to completely discontinue in-person site reviews.Īccording to Nilda Garcia, MD, FACS, vice chair of the VRC, the virtual review process includes several important modifications: (To learn more, read ACS: Future role likely for both virtual and in-person trauma site visits.)Ĭorrection: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the ACS had permanently discontinued in-person site visits for trauma center verification and that all future visits would be virtual. After pandemic restrictions ease, the ACS may adopt some combination of remote and in-person visits for future verification reviews. trauma centers.Ĭenters scheduled for a site visit in 2021 will be reviewed remotely using the new process. The VRC then piloted a virtual site visit process at three U.S. Virtual site visits will involve new roles and processesĪfter the ACS extended all verification periods for one year in March 2020, the VRC developed plans to restructure the review process for remote technology. The upcoming changes were previewed during the 2020 TQIP Annual Scientific Meeting and Training, which took place online December 7-10.ĭuring the “New Approach to Verification” session, leaders of the Verification Review Committee (VRC) explained the virtual site visit process and outlined several changes to trauma center requirements. ACS leaders also reported that they will soon finalize major revisions to the college’s trauma center standards. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has announced that it has developed a process for conducting trauma center verification site visits in a virtual format.
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