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A patient who was in a serious car accident is taken by ambulance to the nearest hospital. When the ambulance arrives, the Emergency Department (ED) staff tells the paramedics that they need to take the patient to the nearest trauma center because they do not have the trauma specialty. This scenario is a violation of EMTALA.