April 25 webinar on best practices for screening patients for signs of trafficking
The AHA's Hospitals Against Violence initiative April 25 at 2 p.m. ET will host a webinar providing resources and best practice techniques for health care professionals to screen and/or assess for signs of labor and/or sex trafficking. Makini Chisolm-Straker, M.D., treasurer of the board of directors and co-founder of HEAL Trafficking and assistant professor of emergency medicine for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Holly Austin Gibbs, patient care services program director at Dignity Health, will share strategies, screening and assessment tools, and the limitations of existing instruments to assist hospitals and health systems in providing trauma-informed and person-centered care. View more information and register.
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