“No school community, town, or state in this country is immune to gun violence.” That was the message delivered by Police Detective Lt. Scott Jones to the opening community education session of the Bedford Safe Campaign last Wednesday. The program included an keynote address from Dr. Peter Masiakos, co-director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Gun Violence Prevention and a personal story from Bedford resident Dawn Kociubes.
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Medical experts say gun violence is a public health crisis By: Adina Genn April 14, 2021 Comments Off on Medical experts say gun violence is a public health crisis
A number of healthcare networks are joining Northwell Health in recognizing gun violence as a public health crisis. In a new interactive forum, they aim to bring about best practices to prevent firearm injury and death, and leave politics out of their discussions.
The forum is part of Northwell’s recently launched Gun Violence Prevention Learning Collaborative for Health Systems and Hospitals.
Joining the initiative are more than 300 representatives from CommonSpirit Health, University of Chicago Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Medical Center, and other hospitals and health systems. Representatives from these organizations include executives, clinical leaders, researchers and other health care work
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