Podcast: University of Maryland Medical Center, June 2017:

Anne Williams, director of community health improvement; Erin Walton, clinical supervisor, Violence Prevention Program. Community violence has long been a health issue in Baltimore, where the University of Maryland Medical Center is located.

Podcast Replay

UMMC uses an individual’s admission to the hospital from violent injury as an entry point to start intensive case management with the victim and surround him or her with the social and medical support needed to reduce risk and recidivism.

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