During fiscal year 2000, Cape Canaveral Hospital (CCH) treated approximately 29,000 emergency patients. Of those 29,000 patients only five were transferred to Holmes Regional Trauma Center (HRTC), upon being stabilized, because they met Trauma Alert Criteria.

In the same year, Brevard County Emergency Medical Services personnel and/or First Flight transported 138 patients meeting trauma criteria from the Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral area to HRTC. This represents less than one percent of the total number of emergency patients treated at CCH.

Total number of emergency visits
Together, Cape Canaveral Hospital, Holmes Regional Medical Center, and Palm Bay Community Hospital Emergency Departments treated illnesses and injuries of more than 100,000 of our neighbors.

(Rounded to nearest 10,000)

Cape Canaveral area trauma alerts by zip code

Trauma Alert Criteria

The state of Florida requires patients meeting certain Trauma Alert Criteria be transported to the nearest designated trauma center. EMS personnel may e-mail us at info@health-first.org or call (800) 541-1928 to receive laminated copies of this criteria.