About

BVRAC’s mission to provide the infrastructure and leadership necessary to sustain an optimal and comprehensive trauma, acute care, and emergency medical system within Brazos Valley Region.

Our Mission

BVRAC’s mission to provide the infrastructure and leadership necessary to sustain an optimal and comprehensive trauma, acute care, and emergency medical system within Brazos Valley Region.

Vision

The BVRAC vision is to take an ecological and multidisciplinary approach to the emergency medical system by unifying the Brazos Valley Region through public health, emergency management, injury prevention, acute care, and emergency services. BVRAC plans to engage the regional advisory council members, all trauma physicians, nurses, and emergency medical technicians, along with anyone else involved in emergency/trauma response to positively affect the knowledge and skills of the Brazos Valley community so that it can make health related gains before, during, and following emergency situations and trauma incidents.

The overarching goal is to provide comprehensive trauma care through strong partnerships, acute care via rapid response, and injury prevention by means of education and innovative programming. The BVRAC emphatically believes that a dedication to unity, special at-risk populations, and outreach education will continue to catapult not only the BVRAC, but most importantly the entire region into another level of service, trauma response, and prevention.

Philosophy

Since its inception, BVRAC has been active in trauma prevention and education programs as well as development and implementation of trauma patient care standards. Maintaining public education and awareness activities to increase the understanding of the trauma care system, access to trauma care and prevention of injuries, and providing coordination of acute medical services in mass casualty and disaster settings is an integral part of the mission and goals of BVRAC.

In recent years, BVRAC has developed a Perinatal and Stroke Committee for additional improvement and implementation of patient care standards.

Committees

BVRAC’s mission to provide the infrastructure and leadership necessary to sustain an optimal and comprehensive trauma, acute care, and emergency medical system within Brazos Valley Region.

  • To serve as a liaison between health care facilities within this region to include the monitoring of system development, coordination of activities, performance improvement, and hospital training. 
  • To provide oversight and guidance for the Region regarding the Pediatric 
    Objectives issued by the State of Texas. 
  • To serve as a liaison to the acute care facilities and pre-hospital providers for initiatives issued by the State of Texas to include but not limited to stroke care, facility designations, public education, and training. 

  • To provide guidance for training within the Region to enhance trauma and acute care standards in this Region.

  • To coordinate preparedness and responses to acute medical mass casualty, evacuation, and disaster situations. 

  • To provide guidance within the Region for injury prevention activities. 
  • To collect injury statistics within the Region for direction of injury prevention activities.

  • Improve the quality of healthcare, access to care, and education for pregnant women and newborns in the region utilizing best practices and evidence-based medicine. 
  • Develop system improvement initiatives. 

  • To serve as a liaison for pre-hospital providers within this Region to include the monitoring of system development, coordination of activities, performance improvement, and pre-hospital training. 
  • To conduct Provider and Community Stroke / Cardiac education 
  • Develop and distribute transport plans to be consistent with GETAC guidelines (e.g. criteria for patient identification, destination choices based on designation, inter-facility transfers, early treatment, training requirements, etc.) 
  • Develop system performance improvement initiatives.

  • To ensure optimal care of the trauma and acute care patients in TSA-N, through critical review of select cases by members of the Brazos Valley Regional Advisory Council as identified by system filters.
  • To collect data of overall stats for patients transferred out of the TSA-N region and report back to Board and General Assembly.
  • To monitor the performance of identified performance improvement indicators as it relates to the quality of patient care.
  • Make recommendations regarding system enhancement and/or improvements.