to shut the level ii trauma center in august, citing a decline in use over the past two years, and maria reyes is trying to keep it open. >> trauma means immediate medical help, when there is none, you can't put a band-aid on a gunshot wound and say go. >> reporter: she says the trauma center is the only one in the eastside community and closing it will disproportionately impact minority patients, forcing them to travel another 10 miles to santa clara or 21 miles to stanford hospital, which would be the only two remaining trauma centers in the county. and shuttering the regional trauma center will impact all patients by creating longer weights at other hospitals emergency departments, already seeing an increase in patients. and hca, and treating the most severe heart attacks, known as stem e and downgrade the program, supervisor cindy chavez says 20% of the counties stroke patients are treated at regional. >> somebody who is having a stroke, you don't want to drive another eight miles to get them to a stroke center, the reason is the impacts are minute by minute that brain damage happens