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LSU Shreveport hospital loses trauma rating
The Advocate / Capital City Press, November 1, 2012
The American College of Surgeons has removed the Level 1 trauma center at LSU's hospital in Shreveport from its list of facilities with resources needed to provide "optimal care of the injured patient." The College of Surgeons' decision came after a team of professionals surveyed the facility last fall and found continuing "deficiencies and weaknesses" in the trauma center's operations
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