(Rowlett) March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. A brain injury can happen anytime, anywhere to anyone. Brain injuries do not discriminate. Did you know that 1.7 million people will sustain a brain injury each year? An injury that happens in an instant can bring a lifetime of physical, cognitive and behavior challenges and early, equal and adequate access to care will greatly increase overall quality of life.
Lake Pointe Medical Center is proud to support the efforts of The Brain Injury Association by joining their nationwide network of state brain injury organizations affiliated with BIAA, including self-advocates, families and volunteers across the nation to mark Brain Injury Awareness Month this March.
“As the trauma coordinator in a busy emergency department, I see how these injuries can affect patients and their families,” explains Jackie Clifton, RN, trauma coordinator at Lake Pointe Medical Center. “However, the advances in comprehensive treatment, education, and research can bring help to the millions of individuals affected by brain injury.”
Join us in raising awareness of brain injury, which can happen anytime, anywhere and to anyone, through the following: volunteer, donate, speak out to elected officials on issues affecting people with brain injuries, and more.
Visit biausa.org to learn what else you can do to help the Brain Injury Association of America continue to raise awareness of the impact of brain injury.
The Facts:
- A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a blow, jolt or bump to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain.
- 1.7 million people, including 475,000 children, sustain a TBI in theU.S.each year. 3.1 million individuals live with life-long disability as a result of TBI.
- TBIs are caused by falls (35%); car crashes (17%); workplace accidents (16%); assaults (10%); and other (21%).
- TBI is a contributing factor to a third (30.5%) of all injury-related deaths in theUnited States.
- Just as no two people are exactly alike, no two brain injuries are exactly alike.
- The cost to treat brain injuries are staggering:
- Average hospital-based acute rehab is about $8,000 per day.
- Range for post-acute residential is about $850 to $2500 per day.
- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in theU.S., direct medical costs and indirect costs of TBI, such as lost productivity, totaled an estimated $76.3 billion each year.
ABOUT BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Our mission is to be the voice of brain injury. Through advocacy, education and research, we bring help, hope and healing to millions of individuals living with brain injury, their families and the professionals who serve them. Visit www.biausa.org to learn what else you can do to continue to raise awareness of the impact of brain injury.
ABOUT LAKE POINTE HEALTH NETWORK
Lake Pointe Health Network is a locally focused health network developed by Lake Pointe Medical Center and designed to improve access to healthcare services in Rockwall, Rowlett, Royse City and the surrounding communities.
The network currently comprises Lake Pointe Medical Center, a 112-bed acute care hospital located in Rowlett at 6800 Scenic Drive; Lake Pointe Imaging Centers, diagnostic imaging centers located in Rockwall at 1005 West Ralph Hall Parkway, Suite 121 and in Forney at 763 E. State Highway 80, Suite 120; Lake Pointe Sleep Center, located in Rowlett at 7501 Lakeview Parkway, Suite 140; Lake Pointe Cancer Center, a center providing comprehensive cancer care, located in Rowlett at 7501 Lakeview Parkway, Suite 120; Lake Pointe Breast Center, a center providing comprehensive breast care, located in Rockwall at 1005 West Ralph Hall Parkway, Suite 121; Lake Pointe Wound Care Center, a comprehensive wound care center that includes hyperbaric oxygen therapy, located in Rowlett at 7501 Lakeview Parkway, Suite 240; Lake Pointe Urgent Care Center, located in Rockwall at 1005 West Ralph Hall Parkway, Suite 115; Lake Pointe Cardiac Rehabilitation, located in Rowlett at 7801 Lakeview Parkway, Suite 110; and Lake Pointe Fitness and Outpatient Rehabilitation, located at 9400 Lakeview Parkway, Suite 124.
Lake Pointe Health Network is committed to providing the same high quality health care found at Lake Pointe Medical Center. To learn more about Lake Pointe Health Network, visit lakepointemedical.com.
Submitted by Bobby Montgomery, Director Marketing and Sleep Medicine, Lake Pointe Health Network.
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