Piedmont Regional Trauma System Inc.

“Form 990 is distributed to the Board at their September meeting prior to the filing deadline.”

“Upon request.”

“PRTS conducts ongoing reviews and performance improvement programs of the application by Forsyth County EMS of the field triage criteria and makes recommendations for adjustments needed to reduce under-triage or over-triage. PRTS works with the performance improvement committees from participating hospitals and with a medical review committee established by the local Medical Society to improve the overall quality of trauma care within the trauma system. PRTS continues to improve and evaluate the effectiveness of their computer program to collect data from all participating hospitals. This data continues to be used to evaluate and improve outcomes of patients triaged within the trauma system fro the pre-hospital stage to the completion of rehabilitation. PRTS is funded by its participating hospitals. Each participating hospital enters into an operating agreement with PRTS whereby the hospital agrees to fund PRTS' operations for a specified period of time. Presently, PRTS has two participating hospitals: North Carolina Baptist Hospital ("NCBH") and Forsyth Regional Medical Center ("FRMC"). Both NCBH and FRMC are hospitals recognized as exempt from federal income tax under Internal Revenue Code ("IRC") Section 501(c)(3) and are classified as other than private foundations under IRC Section 509(a)(1) and IRC Section 170(b)(1)(A)(iii).”

“PRTS paid North Carolina Baptist Hospital $97,839 for Gail Kluttz, RN, BSN to serve as Trauma Services Coordinator.”

“PRTS paid $35,000 to the Department of Emergency Medicine, WFU School of Medicine for Dr. Roy Alson to serve as Paramedic Education Consultant. PRTS paid $30,985 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences for Dr. J. Wayne Meredith to serve as Medical Director of PRTS.”