Cost of Gun Violence to Hospitals with Northwell Healths Center for Gun Violence Prevention

Published: Aug. 19, 2022, noon

b"Each day, more than 300 Americans are shot, and, according to the CDC, more than 110 are killed by gunfire. The Government Accountability Office reports that gun violence costs hospitals over $1B annually. Dr. Chethan Sathya, a pediatric trauma surgeon and director of Northwell Health's Center for Gun Violence Research recently testified in front of the Senate\\u2019s Judiciary Committee on this topic. He sits down today with Laura Castellanos, associate director of the American Hospital Association\\u2019s Hospitals Against Violence initiative to discuss what we know about the cost to hospitals and health systems, as they treat a growing number of victims of gun violence. For more information on the work that Northwell\\u2019s Center for Gun Violence Prevention is doing, please visit https://www.northwell.edu/center-for-gun-violence-prevention"