Nearly 3,400 trauma patients came through the doors of UM Prince George’s Hospital Center last year -- the second-busiest trauma center in the state.
Staff said sometimes they barely have time to think between moving from one critical patient to the next.
"We constantly are busy moving people through in and out. Sometimes so busy that we don't have the time to just sit down and take a deep breath after one of our severe traumas," said Kim Grady, the hospital’s former emergency department director of nurses.
Because of the hospital's location in Cheverly, hundreds of the trauma patients it treats every year come from D.C. It's the closest trauma center for tens of thousands of D.C. residents who live east of the Anacostia River.
But that may change soon. Next year the hospital is scheduled to close and reopen in a new location in Largo, which is 10 miles away.
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