2024 Children's of Alabama/UAB Annual Report

Patient Care, Quality & Safety

Firearm Injury Steering Committee

This committee, formed in 2023, made significant progress in its first full year, distributing more than 1,000 gun locks to employees, patients and family members. They also provided Be SMART information to employees and patients, and pushed safety strategies on social channels and in patient rooms. To learn more about best practices, they visited and met virtually with other peer hospitals. The group was created in response to a dramatic increase in firearm related injuries both here and around the country. Nursing administration of the Children’s Emergency Department, at the direction of Children’s chief nursing officer and other executive leadership, assembled the committee to organize existing efforts and bring about new ideas. The team is made up of emergency department leadership, nurses and physicians, directors of integrative care, physicians in primary care, critical care and rehabilitation medicine, Children’s government relations staff, and strategic communications and marketing staff. The group’s focus is to provide education related to protecting kids from firearm injuries.

1 , 000 + gun locks were provided to employees, patients and family members

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