If you missed our segment on Midday Maryland for National Injury Prevention Day, click the link below to visit Midday Maryland's website story or view the segment on YouTube by clicking the video below. Midday Maryland's Website Story To hear more about National Injury Prevention Day, visit our blog post by Kelly Llewellyn from Meritus … Continued
What is Trauma Designation and State Verification?
A Trauma Center is identified in two (2) ways – designation and verification. Trauma Center Designation is a process outlined and developed at a state or local level. The state identifies unique criteria to categorize the trauma centers. These categories vary from state to state. The categories are Level I – III in Maryland. Trauma … Continued
TraumaNet on WBAL’s Torrey Snow Radio Show
On Friday, October 1st 2021, James Gannon - TraumaNet Chair and Trauma Program Manager at LifeBridge's Sinai Hospital - spoke with Torrey Snow on WBAL 1090/FM 101.5 News Radio Show. They discussed youth violence, the impact on healthcare workers and what the community can do to help. Torrey asked Jaime a few questions about these … Continued
Falls Prevention on Midday Maryland
On the September 22nd edition of Midday Maryland, host Elsa M. talked with Holley Farley - Nursing Coordinator for Clinical Quality at JHH; Emily Middleton - Safety Data Coordinator at Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at JHH; and Afton Jamerson - Trauma Program Manager at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, about Falls Prevention Day and … Continued
Falls in the Elderly Population
Maryland, we have a problem... Falls pose a serious risk to public safety. Annually, since 2009, death secondary to a fall has increased approximately 3 percent nationally. Maryland also experienced a similar trend in fall related deaths, with greater than 15,500 deaths following a fall in 2020, which equates to 54-68 fall-related deaths per 100,000 … Continued
Child Passenger Safety at Various Stages of Your Child’s Life
Parenting is hard for a lot of reasons. I recall when I first started working in the field of child passenger safety in the mid-90s how challenging it was to get car seats installed properly in most cars. At that time, I was not a parent and my youth and agility (relative to now!) helped … Continued
Trauma Awareness Month on Midday Maryland
On the May 6th edition of Midday Maryland, host, Elsa M, talked with Gail Lemay - Clinical Quality Specialist at Tidal Health Peninsula Medical; Doug Walters - EMS Nurse Liaison at Tidal Health Peninsula Regional; and Dawn Moreland - Director of the Trauma Program at UM Capital Region Medical Center, about trauma awareness month, boating … Continued
The Red Desk Project: A Call-to-Action to Prevent Child Homicide
Presented by LifeBridge Health's Center for Hope On April 29th, 2021, LifeBridge Health's Center for Hope unveiled the Red Desk Project at Sinai Hospital. The Red Desk Project is a public art campaign of 111 red school desks. Each desk represents one child that became a victim to domestic and community violence in the last … Continued
Increasing Violence and Crimes in Baltimore and Maryland
On the April 13th edition of Midday Maryland, host, Elsa M, talked with Dr. Thomas Scalea, physician in chief at R Adams Cowely Shock Trauma Center, and James Gannon, a RN at Sinai Life Bridge Health, about the increasing violence and crimes in Baltimore and in Maryland. COVID isn’t the only problem that trauma centers … Continued
National survey of home injuries during the time of COVID-19: who is at risk?
Authors: Andrea C. Gielen, Grace Bachman, Oluwakemi Badaki-Makun, Renee M. Johnson, Eileen McDonald, Elise Omaki, Keshia M. Pollack Porter, Leticia Ryan, and Wendy Shields Funding for this study was provided by: Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy; Johns Hopkins Institute for Health and Social Policy; and Trauma Net Education Grant to Johns Hopkins … Continued
