Baltimore spent $4.4M on hospital violence prevention programs. Do they work?
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Baltimore has invested more than $4.46 million in hospital programs designed to help victims of violence and prevent them from being hurt again. But whether those programs are actually reducing violence remains an open question.
Hospitals report strikingly low rates of patients returning with violent injuries. Researchers caution that those figures alone don’t prove the programs work, and no newer research has directly evaluated Baltimore’s hospital-based violence intervention networ
Hospitals report strikingly low rates of patients returning with violent injuries. Researchers caution that those figures alone don’t prove the programs work, and no newer research has directly evaluated Baltimore’s hospital-based violence intervention networ
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