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Yep. That is to say, you can be everything a level 1 is without the accreditation and still be a level 2. Or, you can be a bare minimum level 2 and lack certain sub-specialty surgeons.Is that actually true? I looked up what the official difference is (its quite large) but I could also see places that have everything in place and COULD be a level 1 but choose not to so they don't get stuck with all of the local trauma.
There are plenty of large cities that don't have level 1 trauma centers (Corpus Christi TX), and some small ones that do (Greenville NC, Spartanburg SC).