Survey of ATLS Programs

In 2007, PCRM began a nationwide survey of programs that offer ATLS courses. Because of the large number of programs in the United States the survey is ongoing, but the results thus far have been encouraging. See the current results below.

Live Animal Use for Advanced Trauma Life Support Courses in U.S. and Canadian Programs: An Ongoing Survey

Updated: Nov. 17, 2011

Programs Using Live Animals for ATLS Courses (5)

• Baystate Medical Center – Springfield, MA | TAKE ACTION >
• Hartford Hospital – Hartford, CT
• North Dakota State University/Sanford Health – Fargo, ND | TAKE ACTION >
• Tulane University School of Medicine – New Orleans, LA | TAKE ACTION >
• University of Texas Medical Branch – Galveston, TX

Programs Using Nonanimal Models for ATLS Courses (259)

• Akron City Hospital - Akron, OH
• Albany Medical College – Albany, NY
• Albert Einstein Medical Center – Philadelphia, PA
• Allegheny General Hospital – Pittsburgh, PA
• Altoona Hospital - Altoona, PA
• Altru Health Systems – Grand Forks, ND
• AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center - Atlantic City, NJ
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital – St. Louis, MO
• Baylor University Medical Center –Dallas, TX
• Bellevue Hospital – New York, NY
• Berkshire Medical Center – Pittsfield, MA
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Boston, MA
• Bethesda North Hospital – Cincinnati, OH
• Birmingham Regional Emergency Medical Services System – Birmingham, AL
• Borgess Medical Center – Kalamazoo, MI
• Boston University School of Medicine – Boston, MA
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Boston, MA
• Bristol Regional Medical Center – Bristol, TN
• British Columbia Children's Hospital – Vancouver, BC
• Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University – Greenville, NC
• Bronson Methodist Hospital – Kalamazoo, MI
• BryanLGH Medical Center-West – Lincoln, NE
• CAMC Life Support Training Center – Charleston, WV
• Carle Foundation Hospital – Urbana, IL
• Carolina’s Medical Center – Charlotte, NC
• Cedars Sinai Medical Center - Los Angeles, CA
• Central Ohio Trauma System – Columbus, OH
• Chicago Committee on Trauma – Chicago, IL
• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta – Atlanta, GA
• Christ Hospital and Medical Center – Chicago, IL
• Christiana Hospital – Newark, DE
• Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center – Cincinnati, OH
• Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center – Johnstown, PA
• Cooper Hospital – Camden, NJ
• CoxHealth – Springfield, MO
• Cowichan District Hospital – Duncan, BC
• Creighton University Medical Center – Omaha, NE
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center – Lebanon, NH
• Deaconess Hospital – Evansville, IN
• Deaconess Medical Center – Spokane, WA
• Denver Health Medical Center – Denver, CO
• Detroit Receiving Hospital – Detroit, MI
• Duke University Medical Center – Durham, NC
• Duluth Clinic – Duluth, MN
• Eastern Maine Medical Center – Bangor, ME
• East Texas Medical Center, Tyler, TX
• EHS Nova Scotia Trauma Program – Halifax, NS
• Elmhurst Hospital – Elmhurst, NY
• Emory University – Atlanta, GA
• Erie County Medical Center – Buffalo, NY
• Erlanger Hospital – Chattanooga, TN
• Essentia Health/St. Mary's Medical Center – Duluth, MN
• Flagstaff Medical Center – Flagstaff, AZ
• Foothills Medical Centre – Calgary, AB
• Geisinger Medical Center – Danville, PA
• Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center – Wilkes-Barre, PA
• George E. Moerkirk Emergency Medicine Center at Lehigh Valley Hospital Center – Allentown, PA
• Good Samaritan Hospital - Downers Grove, IL
• Good Samaritan Hospital – Kearney, NE
• Grand Rapids Medical Education and Research Center - Grand Rapids, MI
• Greenville Hospital – Greenville, SC
• Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center - La Crosse, WI
• Hahnemann Medical College at Drexel University – Philadelphia, PA
• Hamot Medical Center – Erie, PA
• Harbor-University of California Los Angeles Medical Center – West Carson, CA
• Harborview Medical Center – Seattle, WA
• Harlem Hospital - New York, NY
• Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital – Fort Worth, TX
• Hays Medical Center – Hays, KS
• Hennepin County Medical Center – Minneapolis, MN
• Henry Ford Hospital – Detroit, MI
• Hermann Hospital – Houston, TX
• Hershey Medical Center – Hershey, PA
• Hilltop Church - Sioux Falls, SD
• Holston Valley Hospital – Kingsport, TN
• Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal – Montréal, QC
• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA
• Hotel Dieu Hospital/Queen’s University – Kingston, ON
• Huntsville Hospital - Huntsville, AL
• Hurley Medical Center – Flint, MI
• Idaho State University – Boise, ID
• Idaho State University - Pocatello, ID
• Inova Fairfax Hospital – Falls Church, VA
• Intermountain Medical Center – Murray, UT
• Iowa Health - Des Moines, IA
• Iowa Methodist Medical Center – Des Moines, IA
• Jacobi Hospital Center – Bronx, NY
• Jamaica Hospital Center – Jamaica, NY
• John C. Lincoln Hospital – Dunlap, AZ
• John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County - Chicago, IL
• Johnson City Medical Center - Johnson City, TN
• JPS Health Network - Fort Worth, TX
• Kern Medical Center – Bakersfield, CA
• Kings County Hospital Center – Brooklyn, NY
• Labette County Medical Center – Parsons, KS
• Lakeland Regional Medical Center – Lakeland, FL
• LDS Hospital - Salt Lake City, UT
• Legacy Emmanuel Medical Center – Portland, OR
• Lehigh Valley Health Network – Allentown, PA
• Lincoln Hospital – Bronx, NY
• Loma Linda University Medical Center - Loma Linda, CA
• London Health Sciences Center –London, ON
• Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Shreveport, LA
• Loyola University – Chicago, IL
• Maine Medical Center – Portland, ME
• Maricopa Medical Center – Phoenix, AZ
• Marquette General Hospital – Marquette, MI
• Marshfield Clinic – Marshfield, WI
• Mary I. Bassett Hospital – Cooperstown, NY
• Massachusetts General Hospital – Boston, MA
• McGill University – Montreal, QC
• McMaster University Medical Center – Hamilton, ON
• Medical Center of Central Georgia – Macon, GA
• Medical Center of the Rockies – Loveland, CO
• Medical College of Georgia – Augusta, GA
• Medical College of Ohio – Toledo, OH
• Medical College of Virginia – Richmond, VA
• Medical University of South Carolina–Charleston, SC
• Memorial Hospital and Health System – South Bend, IN
• Memorial Medical Center – Savannah, GA
• Memorial Regional Hospital – Hollywood, FL
• Mercy Hospital Medical Center - Des Moines, IA
• Mercy Medical Center - Sioux City, IA
• Methodist Hospital – Indianapolis, IN
• MetroHealth Medical Center – Cleveland, OH
• Miami Valley Hospital – Dayton, OH
• Middletown Regional Hospital – Middletown, OH
• Mission Hospital – Asheville, NC
• Montana EMS & Trauma Systems - Helena, MT
• Morristown Memorial Hospital – Morristown, NJ
• Moses Cone Hospital Health System – Greensboro, NC
• Mount Sinai Medical Center – Chicago, IL
• Nassau County Medical Center - East Meadow, NY
• New York Hospital - New York, NY
• New York Hospital Queens – Flushing, NY
• New York Presbyterian Hospital – New York, NY
• North Memorial Medical Center – Robbinsdale, MN 
• North Mississippi Medical Center – Tupelo, MS
• The Ottawa Hospital – Ottawa, ON
• Parkview Memorial Hospital – Ft. Wayne, IN
• Poudre Valley Hospital - Fort Collins, CO
• Prince George Regional Hospital – Prince George, BC
• Providence Alaska Medical Center – Anchorage, AK
• Queen Elizabeth II Health Center – Halifax, NS
• The Queen's Medical Center -- Honolulu, HI
• R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center – Baltimore, MD
• Regional West Medical Center – Scottsbluff, NE
• Regions Hospital - St. Paul, MN
• Renown Health – Reno, NV
• R.E. Thomason Hospital - El Paso, TX
• Rhode Island Hospital – Providence, RI
• Richland Memorial Hospital – Columbia, SC
• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital – New Brunswick, NJ
• Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center – Chicago, IL
• Sacred Heart Hospital – Pensacola, FL
• Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, NB
• Saint Louis University Hospital - St. Louis, MO
• Saint Marys Hospital – Rochester, MN
• Salem Hospital – Salem, OR
• San Francisco General Hospital - San Francisco, CA
• Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital – Santa Barbara, CA
• Scott and White Hospital and Clinic – Temple, TX
• Scottsdale Healthcare – Scottsdale, AZ
• Southern Illinois University School of Medicine – Springfield, IL
• Sparrow Health System – Lansing, MI
• St. Alexius Medical Center – Bismarck, ND
• St. Anthony Trauma Program – Lakewood, CO
• St. Anthony's Hospital – Denver, CO
• St. Charles Medical Center – Bend, OR
• St. Cloud Hospital - St. Cloud, MN
• St. Elizabeth Health Center – Youngstown, OH
• St. Francis Hospital – Peoria, IL
• St. Francis Hospital – Tulsa, OK
• St. John Medical Center - Tulsa, OK
• St. John's ATLS – St. John's, NL
• St. John’s Mercy Regional Health Center – Springfield, MO
• St. John's Mercy Medical Center - St. Louis, MO
• St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center – Phoenix, AZ
• St. Lawrence Hospital – Lansing, MI
• St. Luke's Hospital – Bethlehem, PA
• St. Mary's Hospital - Grand Junction, CO
• St. Mary's Medical Center – Evansville, IN
• St. Mary's Medical Center – Huntington, WV
• St. Michael's Hospital – Toronto, ON
• Stony Brook University Hospital - Stony Brook, NY
• Stormont Vail Health Care – Topeka, KS
• Sunnybrook Health Science Center – Toronto, ON
• SUNY Upstate Medical University – Syracuse, NY
• Swedish Medical Center – Englewood, CO
• Synergy Medical Education Alliance – Saginaw, MI
• Tampa General Hospital - Tampa, FL
• Temple University Hospital - Philadelphia, PA
• Texas Tech University – Lubbock, TX
• Tidewater Center for Life Support - Norfolk, VA
• Truman Medical Center - Kansas City, MO
• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences – Bethesda, MD
• United Health Services at Wilson Hospital - Johnson City, NY
• Université Laval - Québec City, QC
• University of Alberta Hospital – Edmonton, AB
• University at Buffalo – Buffalo, NY
• University Hospital – Cincinnati, OH
• University Hospitals – Cleveland, OH
• University Medical Center – El Paso, TX
• University Medical Center - Fresno, CA
• University Medical Center - Las Vegas, NV
• University Medical Center – Tucson, AZ
• University of Arkansas - Little Rock, AR
• University of California Davis Medical Center – Sacramento, CA
• University of California Irvine Medical Center - Orange, CA
• University of California Los Angeles Medical Center – Los Angeles, CA
• University of California San Francisco – Fresno, CA
• University of Chicago – Chicago, IL
• University of Florida – Gainesville, FL
• University of Florida – Jacksonville, FL
• University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics – Iowa City, IA
• University of Kansas Medical Center - Kansas City, KS
• University of Kentucky Medical Center – Lexington, KY
• University of Louisville Hospital – Louisville, KY
• University of Manitoba – Winnipeg, MB
• University of Massachusetts Medical School – Worcester, MA
• University Medical Center at Brackenridge – Austin, TX
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey University Hospital – Newark, NJ
• University of Miami School of Medicine – Miami, FL
• University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI
• University of Mississippi School of Medicine – Jackson, MS
• University of Missouri Health Sciences Center – Columbia, MO
• University of Minnesota Medical School - Duluth, MN
• University of New Mexico Hospitals – Albuquerque, NM
• University of Oklahoma Medical Center – Oklahoma City, OK
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center – Pittsburgh, PA
• University of Rochester, Rochester NY
• University of Saskatchewan/ Saskatoon ATLS – Saskatoon, SK
• University of Sherbrooke – Sherbrooke, QC
• University of South Alabama – Mobile, AL
• University of Tennessee College of Medicine – Chattanooga, TN
• University of Tennessee College of Medicine – Knoxville, TN
• University of Tennessee College of Medicine – Memphis, TN
• University of Texas Health Science Center – San Antonio, TX
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Dallas, TX
• University of Toledo Medical Center – Toledo, OH
• University of Utah Hospital - Salt Lake City, UT
• University of Vermont College of Medicine – Burlington, VT
• University of Victoria – Victoria, BC
• University of Virginia Health System – Charlottesville, VA
• University of Wisconsin Hospital – Madison, WI
• USC Surgical Skills Training & Education Center – Los Angeles, California
• Valley Baptist Medical Center – Harlingen, TX
• Vanderbilt University – Nashville, TN
• Via Christi Regional Medical Center – Wichita, KS
• WakeMed – Raleigh, NC
• Washington Hospital Center – Washington, DC
• Wesley Medical Center – Wichita, KS
• Westchester County Medical Center - Valhalla, NY
• West Virginia University Center for Rural Emergency Medicine – Morgantown, WV
• Winthrop-University Hospital - Mineola, NY
• Wishard Memorial Hospital – Indianapolis, IN
• Wyoming Family Practice Center – Casper, WY
• Yale University School of Medicine – New Haven, CT
• York Hospital - York, PA