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Your Comprehensive Surgical Solution

With more than 30 years of combined experience, Desert Trauma Surgeons provides evidence-based trauma, acute care surgery, and surgical critical care services to hospitals throughout Southern California. We partner closely with hospitals to strengthen their surgical programs, integrate seamlessly with existing clinical teams, and support regional and national accreditation efforts. Our goal is to deliver exceptional patient care while helping our hospital partners improve operational performance and long-term financial sustainability.

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Understanding the Role of a Trauma Surgeon.

Our dual-board-certified surgeons have extensive experience in creating and improving Level I, II, III and IV trauma centers. Our model provides dedicated coverage of key service lines for the hospital: Trauma, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. While on-call our surgeons are dedicated to inpatient care and are not distracted by outpatient or administrative tasks. This allows them to be 100% focused on the care of the inpatient, optimizing surgical outcomes.

Our Expertise

Featured Services

Desert Trauma Surgeons offers administrative and clinical services to our corporate partners. Our scope includes surgeon recruiting, revenue cycle management, and program development. We work with our corporate partners to achieve their strategic objectives in the healthcare marketplace.

Hospitals

Desert Trauma Surgeons believes that every hospital can achieve its goal of maintaining or improving its accreditation status without exhaustive resource expenditure. We understand efficiency and take budgetary constraints into account. We collaborate closely with hospital leadership to provide value-driven surgical care.

Surgeons

Propel your surgical career and live the optimal work-life balance that has eluded you. We offer competitive pay, high case-mix complexity, and a work schedule tailored to your personal and professional needs. Our team service model ensures your free time is yours, while allowing you to achieve your personal and financial goals.

Patients

Desert Trauma Surgeons serves both inpatient and outpatient demand for the hospital and community. In addition to the trauma and emergency surgical service lines, we offer patients outpatient general and surgical subspecialty services including colorectal, minimally invasive/robotic surgery, vascular, hepatobiliary, surgical oncology, and advanced wound care. We contract with many healthcare plans, and we will work closely with you to meet your surgical needs.