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About AHA Hospitals Against Violence Initiative
HAV’s work is guided by the Building a Safe Workplace and Community Framework, which identifies four essential domains that hospital and health system leaders should consider as they address issues of violence in their workplaces. These include mitigate risk, trauma support, culture of safety and violence intervention.
To further support hospitals and health systems in advancing this work, HAV has developed a series of issue briefs that take a deeper look into each domain of the Building a Safe Workplace and Community Framework. These briefs offer practical strategies, insights, and examples that organizations can use to strengthen their violence‑prevention efforts.
Building a Safe Workplace and Community Framework
Issue Brief
Violence Mitigation in a Culture of Safety
This issue brief examines how hospitals’ violence mitigation efforts can fit effectively into an organization’s culture of safety strategy. The brief includes thought provoking questions to facilitate discussion of how violence mitigation can be integrated seamlessly into the larger framework of patient and worker safety initiatives, supporting an overall culture of safety.
Issue Brief
Mitigating the Risk of Violence
The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence (HAV) initiative hosted the American Society for Health Care Risk Management (ASHRM) for a facilitated dialogue to explore challenges and current strategies to mitigate the risk of violence. The discussion fostered an exchange of ideas and solutions that informed this issue brief and accompanying case studies.
Issue Brief
Providing Trauma Support to Your Workforce Following an Incident or Threat of Violence
This issue brief examines trauma support for hospital and health system team members. It was developed from discussions the HAV Advisory Group had with the Medical University of South Carolina’s National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center (NMVVRC) team about the challenges and opportunities to provide trauma support to health care workers following an incident or threat of violence.
Issue Brief
Community Violence Intervention
Guided by conversations with University of Chicago Medicine and Grady Health, this issue brief explores the roles hospitals and health systems can play in community violence intervention. As trusted pillars of their communities, hospitals and health systems can be well-positioned to educate and connect patients and families to violence intervention programs and services.
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