...The $1.5 million will allow Northwell Health’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention to provide training, technical assistance, coordination and support to the three participating providers: Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, and SBH Health System in the Bronx.
The program integrates voluntary firearm injury risk screening into emergency department visits for patients who are 12 and older, regardless of the reason for their visit. The screening is brief, confidential, and incorporated into existing clinical workflows. Patients who screen positive will be offered resources such as gun locks, secure storage guidance, lethal means counseling, extreme risk protection order support, referrals to community-based violence prevention programs, behavioral health and victim services...
In the Emergency Department...
And it's "voluntary". Oh, that should work real well.
So, did those hospitals receive money in return for their compliance unrelated to the $1.5 mil?
If so, how much?
And how is that $1.5 million being spent?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Screen positive.
Like firearms are some sort of disease or something.