Why Choose Us

Whenever a national leader visits Kansas City, The University of Kansas Health System trauma and acute care surgery team is consulted well in advance.

As the region's most experienced nationally verified Level I Trauma Center, the hospital often goes on standby when top-level elected officials and government dignitaries visit the Kansas City metro area. The hospital is also the official injury treatment and healthcare provider for the Kansas City Royals and Kansas City Chiefs.

The trauma center treats and cares for high volumes of trauma and burn patients each year. The hospital's Gene and Barbara Burnett Burn Center is the region's only adult and pediatric burn care facility accredited by the American Burn Association.

The top national verification puts the health system's trauma program among the best in the country. Our experts are prepared around the clock to handle the full range of trauma incidents – everything from multivehicle traffic accidents to violent crimes to mass-casualty emergencies such as explosions and natural disasters.

Specifically, the Level I distinction recognizes the trauma center’s ability to provide the highest possible standard of care for the most severely injured patients and those with complex, multisystem injuries. The program is the region’s largest; the trauma center treats nearly twice as many patients each year as the next-largest facility.

The multidisciplinary trauma team’s physician specialists include trauma surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, neurosurgeons, orthopedic traumatologists and orthopedists, plastic surgeons, radiologists, pediatric critical care specialists and others. Trauma nurses, therapists, nutritionists, neuropsychologists, case managers, care coordinators and others round out the team.