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Mercy Medical Center to seek designation as a Level III trauma center – a first in Merced County

Eight hospitals in the San Joaquin Valley have emergency departments that are designated as “trauma centers” equipped to deal with varying degrees of injuries, including one Level I facility capable of treating the most serious forms of trauma. But none of those trauma centers are in Merced County. That will change if Mercy Medical Center in Merced succeeds in a quest to be tabbed as a trauma center hospital. Tim Williams, administrator for the…

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