Utah Code Title 53. Public Safety Code § 53-2d-303. Department duties

(a) identifies statewide trauma care needs, objectives, and priorities;

(b) identifies the equipment, facilities, personnel training, and other things necessary to create and maintain a statewide trauma system; and

(c) organizes and coordinates trauma care within defined geographic areas;

(a) facilitating the coordination of prehospital, acute care, and rehabilitation services and providers through state regulation and oversight;

(b) facilitating the ongoing evaluation and refinement of the statewide trauma system;

(c) providing educational programs;

(d) encouraging cooperation between community organizations, health care facilities, public health officials, emergency medical service providers, and rehabilitation facilities for the development of a statewide trauma system;

(e) implementing a quality assurance program using information from the statewide trauma registry established pursuant to Section 53-2d-304;

(f) establishing trauma center designation requirements in accordance with Section 53-2d-305; and

(g) developing standards so that: