AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, Jones Day and HEAL Trafficking (Health, Education, Advocacy, Linkage) hosted Forced Labor in Health Care Supply Chains: What Hospital Leaders Need to Know, an event in New York where speakers from Northwell Health shared practical information and resources to help health care providers prevent human trafficking, with a focus on health care supply chain issues.

Santhosh Paulus, M.D., senior program director, and Wilonda Green, program manager, for the Northwell Health Human Trafficking Education, Advocacy, Response & Training Program described the effective and compassionate program to identify and prevent trafficking victims in its patient population, as well as Northwell’s journey to develop a Supply Chain Forced Labor Program.  

Paul Kaufman, Northwell Health vice president and deputy general counsel, and Jones Day attorneys Bethany Biesenthal, Taylor Goodspeed and Julia Feldman discussed the nation’s anti-trafficking law, trends in compliance and government enforcement, and diligence and disclosure risks, especially as they relate to environmental, social and governance standards. The speakers provided external counsel and in-house attorney perspectives and practical approaches to mitigating trafficking-associated risks. 

Mike Schiller, senior director of supply chain for the AHA’s Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management affiliate, also presented at the event.

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