During the course of the debate, Dr. Tommy Thompson, director of preventive care research, stated that "violence has a clear and measurable impact on the physical and mental health of all our citizens [and] on our clinics, our hospital emergency rooms, and all our healthcare facilities" (Crowley, 227). Some objected that Group Health was veering off on a political tangent, as in the old days, but most agreed that violence was a serious health issue.
Group Health Cooperative debates violence as a public health issue and bans weapons at all Group Health facilities on April 16, 1994.
- By HistoryLink Staff
- Posted 3/05/2006
- HistoryLink.org Essay 7673
Sources: Walt Crowley, To Serve the Greatest Number: A History of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound (Seattle: UW Press/Group Health, 1996), 226-227.
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