Regional One Health Elvis Presley Trauma Center in Memphis is the only Level 1 trauma center in a 150-mile radius. With three weeks left in the year, almost 1,500 gunshot patients have been treated at the hospital in 2023.
african-american men in philadelphia. so the point was to bring as many of these young people who stood both literally and figurativety in the cross hairs. the way we understand gun violence both as individuals debating this in america, we understand it from television and through movies and hip hop music, but very few of us understand what is involved with both treating a gunshot patient, and in terms of dealing with the recovery afterward. scott, real quickly, i want to ask you because of this program beginning in 06. has temple been able to chart or see a reduction in the type of gunshot wounds that they have had to treat since the program went into effect? is it working? yes, well absolutely. thank you for asking that. the goal primarily was to target young folks between 2005 and 2006 when we started this program, we saw 25% increase in