Chicago woman loses 4th child to gun violence

[tyroneweaver]

Chicago woman loses 4th child to gun violence

I think some family needed to change there values a long time ago

 

[OKTexas]

Anybody living there is nuts.

 

[waltky]

And who's gonna pay for alla lil' gang-bangers shootin' each other up?...

Chicago violence drives push for more trauma care
Feb 28,`13 -- In a storefront office on Chicago's violence-plagued South Side, young activists meet in pursuit of a single goal: pressuring the University of Chicago Medical Center to reopen a trauma department it closed 25 years ago.

The trauma facility was shut down long before most of these college students were even born. But they and others believe restoring it will help save people wounded in the city's maelstrom of gun violence, many of them poor and black. "This fight is very important to us," said one of the group's organizers, Veronica Morris-Moore. "If the issue were affecting white students at the university as much as people of color in the community, the university would put more effort into this." Chicago's experience reflects a nationwide trend: An increasing number of U.S. hospitals have closed trauma departments for financial reasons, and impoverished minority communities are frequently the hardest hit. The issue touches a nerve in neighborhoods where other services are also unfairly distributed. But it's also complex, with no clear evidence that lives have been lost.

In Chicago, the young activists' cause is personal. Their friend Damian Turner was hit by a stray bullet in 2010 just blocks from the university and died in an ambulance on the way to a downtown trauma center 10 miles away. He was 18. The group has timed demonstrations to coincide with his birthday and date of death. The group has met resistance from the University of Chicago hospital, and the evidence isn't clear that opening a trauma center on the South Side would save lives. That's because Chicago's existing trauma system already does a good job of getting severely injured patients to one of six trauma centers within 30 minutes. Researchers in Chicago and elsewhere have not found a clear link between longer travel times and increased risk of death. "The question of whether time matters in trauma is much more complicated than what it seems on the surface," said Portland, Ore., researcher Dr. Craig Newgard, lead author of a study of more than 3,600 trauma patients that found no significant link between travel time and death. "There's no magic number, and there's no magic distance."

Most injuries can be treated at any hospital emergency room, but the patients in greatest danger need hospitals with on-call surgeons, other specialists and ready operating rooms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Level 1 trauma centers - the nation's top level of trauma care - can lower the risk of death by 25 percent. Experts also agree that not every hospital should be a Level 1 trauma center. Trauma teams perform better if they handle more cases. The American College of Surgeons says at least 1,200 cases a year is standard for the best care. Plus, there's no agreement about the ideal distribution of trauma centers, and no federal or state requirements for where they should be located. That leaves economic forces to push trauma centers out of poor areas where patients can't pay because they lack adequate insurance.

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[Duped]

How could this be - guns are illegal in gagster land. Did Rham Emanual's platform include anti violence I would have moved after #2 was murdered, and I'm a slow learner

 

[Avatar4321]

Anybody living there is nuts.

Anyone living there is lucky. We need to change these areas.