'Health systems must play a larger role in preventing gun violence,' drchethansathya writes. 'We understand that this pandemic has pushed our health care system to its limit...but gun violence is one of America’s deadliest and longest running epidemics.'
The rate of gun violence continues to rise across America. There was nearly a 30 percent increase in homicides between 2019 and 2020, making it the largest one-year increase in six decades. The number of gun deaths in 2021 climbed even higher and is approaching the previous peaks in gun death rates in the early 1970s and early 1990s. Although the severe disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic has clearly played a role, we may not fully understand for years what has caused this increase.
We are calling on health care systems across the country to build on proven hospital-based violence intervention models to create coordinated, systemwide programs that give doctors, nurses, physician assistants and social workers the tools they need to talk with the people they treat about preventing gun injuries.
For the pilot, providers in our health system talk to patients who comes into three of our hospitals about how to avoid gun injuries—the same way we talk to them about sugar intake, exercise, or motor vehicle safety. Previously, there was no standardized procedure for when and how clinicians should have these conversations.
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