Prisma Health’s Richland Trauma Center awarded funding from DOJ [Video]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prisma Health Richland Hospital‘s trauma center has been awarded $2 million in grant funding from the United States Department of Justice for a hospital-based violence intervention program aimed to serve victims of community violence. 

Currently, the Midlands has a trauma rate twice the national average, according to Prisma Health Injury Prevention Coordinator Lara Peck and her team at the hospitals’ health’s trauma center.

“We have gunshot woods, stabbings coming into our level one trauma center every day,” she said. 

In an effort to decrease that trauma rate, Prisma Health Richland’s trauma center was recently awarded $2 million from the U.S. Department of Justice to develop and implement a hospital-based violence intervention program.  

“This is truly a programmatic grant, so this is somewhat different in the sense that it will help us provide another service for our …