For more than two years, Northeast Georgia Medical Center has been working to improve trauma care, an effort that could reduce the number of badly injured patients who must be flown to other hospitals. The Gainesville-based hospital plans to seek a Level II trauma care designation, possibly by year’s end, making it the first such designated hospital in the Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission’s Region 2 that covers Northeast Georgia. The nearest Level II centers to Hall are in North Fulton, Lawrenceville and Athens.