Reginald J. Jones, MD, FACS, a Trauma Surgeon with Long Beach Memorial Medical Center & Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Long Beach
Get to know Trauma Surgeon Dr. Reginald J. Jones, who serves patients in Long Beach, California.
With over 25 years of experience in the medical field, Dr. Jones is a board-certified trauma surgeon who is affiliated with MemorialCare Health System, the leading provider of quality primary, urgent, senior care doctors and pediatricians, in Orange and LA County. He is the Medical Director of Trauma Service and the Director of Surgical Critical Care at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, and serves on the medical staff at Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Long Beach.
Established as Seaside Hospital in 1907, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center is the flagship hospital of the MemorialCare Health System. Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Long Beach is a non-profit children’s hospital located on the campus of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in Long Beach, California.
A native of Los Angeles and a proud alumnus of California State University Dominguez Hills, Dr. Jones left Los Angeles to study medicine at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington D.C. where he earned his Medical Degree in 1994. He then moved back to Los Angeles to complete his residency at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.
In addition to being a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the doctor is board-certified in surgery by the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The ABS is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.
vents necessitating a trauma surgeon can range from a serious car accident to a gunshot wound. They are life-threatening because those injuries could affect internal organs. Immediate treatment is necessary by a doctor specially trained to rapidly assess and make decisions about what to do. Trauma surgeons must have confidence in their decisions since they often work with incomplete information. A trauma surgeon must also think linearly. While assessing a patient, the surgeon treats wounds and injuries in a particular order. Bleeding is stopped first. Next, any potential threat of contamination from open wounds is eliminated. Then a decision about surgery has to be made. Is surgery immediately called for, or is the patient stable enough to transport to intensive care for further treatment and observation? The trauma surgeon must treat injuries while simultaneously thinking three or four steps ahead. Saving a life and preventing permanent damage are the primary objectives. A misstep could be costly.
Happily married, Dr. Jones enjoys music, fitness, and auto mechanics in his spare time.
Learn More about Dr. Reginald J. Jones:
Through his findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/3563795-Reginald-Jones-Surgeon or through MemorialCare Health System, https://www.memorialcare.org/find-providers/physician/reginald-j-jones-md
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