Public Health Behavior Solutions (PHBS) provides healthcare practitioners and facilities with evidenced-based injury prevention programs and services to improve community benefits for hospitals. Programs can be established to best meet the needs of the top leading causes of injury in the hospital catchment area. This can include community education materials, educational classes, campaign development, and capacity building (coalition development, networking and intergovernmental program development)
These injury prevention programs can include a wide range of injury mechanisms including both intentional (intimate partner violence, bullying, child abuse and neglect, elder abuse, suicide) and unintentional (motor vehicle occupant safety, pedestrian and bicycle safety, falls, poisoning, suffocation, burns, traumatic brain injury (TBI), drowning). An injury prevention program can be established to help provide an improved community benefit and meet hospital and trauma center verification requirements on injury prevention for example. Sustaining these programs is a vital component to providing sustainable programs and services to meet injury prevention demands of the community.
These injury prevention programs can include a wide range of injury mechanisms including both intentional (intimate partner violence, bullying, child abuse and neglect, elder abuse, suicide) and unintentional (motor vehicle occupant safety, pedestrian and bicycle safety, falls, poisoning, suffocation, burns, traumatic brain injury (TBI), drowning). An injury prevention program can be established to help provide an improved community benefit and meet hospital and trauma center verification requirements on injury prevention for example. Sustaining these programs is a vital component to providing sustainable programs and services to meet injury prevention demands of the community.
PATIENT-DIRECT SERVICES
- Car seat education/installation (We provide one-on-one education with behavioral skills training, as didactic car seat education increases knowledge, but is only weakly associated with correct car seat installation (DeCarli et al., In-print; DeCarli, 2021; Kuroiwa et al., 2018).
- Home safety childproofing services
- Special needs spica hip cast car seat education services (Hospital-based)
- Car Seat Community Benefit Program (Hospital & providers)
HEALTHCARE STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICES
- Downloadable & printable materials:
- Car Seat-Related Patient Discharge Requirements
- Hip spica cast car seat loaner program services and program development
- Car Seat-Staff Development Training (Social Workers, Foster Care, etc.)
- Pediatric Injury Prevention Services
- Community Outreach - Library Parent-Child Workshops
Contact PHBS to learn how injury prevention programs can provide a community benefit to your facility and patients. Call 323-491-6197