Human Trafficking
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics has released the first ICD-10-CM codes for classifying human trafficking abuse.
Webinars
Human Trafficking Webinar Series with Dignity Health
Dignity Health releases human trafficking response resource for hospitals, May 2017
In a LinkedIn piece this week, Providence St. Joseph Health President and CEO Rod Hochman, M.D., a member of the AHA Board of Trustees, explains why the Renton, WA-based health system has made it a priority to help end human trafficking, including forced prostitution.
Catholic Health Initiatives
Dignity Health: Human Trafficking Response Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
Resources to identify and assist victims of human trafficking. Resources include ICD-10-CM coding resources and other organizations' initiatives and resources.
The AHA's Hospitals Against Violence campaign will host a Feb. 22 webinar on a Dignity Health family medicine residency program and clinic that trains future physicians to recognize and appropriately treat human trafficking victims and survivors.
As part of the American Hospital Association's Hospital Against Violence initiative, join Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence and the Association for Community Health Improvement for their upcoming webinar on how hospitals and health systems can prevent human trafficking.
San Francisco-based Dignity Health today published information on its Human Trafficking Response Program to help other hospitals and health systems implement similar programs.
Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago held a ceremony earlier this month to tie purple ribbons around a tree in its lobby as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
The awareness-raising activity is part of a program that hospital launched earlier this year to better equip providers to identify…