Better high-tech scanning and having a cardiac surgery team and operating room just steps away rather than miles away, made a life and death difference for a man who had his heart punctured, liver torn and five ribs broken early April 17.

The car crash victim was the first trauma patient flown into Community Regional Medical Center just hours after the Level 1 trauma designation and trauma staff moved over from University Medical Center to the newly opened Table Mountain Rancheria Trauma Center.

Twenty years after he was born at University Medical Center, Jaime Jacobo became the final hospital patient wheeled out of University Medical Center.

He arrived at the downtown Community Regional Medical Center shortly after 2 p.m. on April 18 to complete the three-day patient move in a transition of pediatric, burn, Level 1 trauma and other acute inpatient services from UMC to Community Regional.

When Jacobo was told he was making history as the last UMC patient to make the move, his eyes grew wide above the paper mask covering his nose and mouth.