National Injury Prevention Day

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The Injury Free Coalition for Kids will host a live one hour twitter chat on November 18th at 1:00 pm EST with Injury Free sites and their institutions to help inform people about the urgent need to prevent injuries and how everyone can play a role. To join the conversation use the hashtag #BeInjuryFree.

November 18th at 1 pm EST — #BeInjuryFree

Topics to be discussed include injuries caused by motor vehicle crashes, poisoning, safe storage of firearms, the need for safe sleep, home safety, holiday safety and other injuries often seen in emergency departments across the country.

On Wednesday, November 18th, 2020, as the sun went down across the nation, city landmarks were shining green. The Johns Hopkins dome in Baltimore, the Hemsley Building on Park Avenue in New York, The Prudential Building in Boston, and bridges in Arkansas and Houston are among the many places that were lighting up in green to raise awareness. Hospitals in at least 15 cities were shining a green light.

Click the name of a city to view photos from that city.

• Austin — The Tower of Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas
• Baltimore — Baltimore City Hall, Johns Hopkins Dome
• Baton Rouge — Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital
• Birmingham — Children's Hospital of Alabama
• Boston — Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Prudential Center Tower, Spire at Atlantic Wharf and the Exchange at 100 Federal Street
• Cincinnati — CCHMC Resource Center
• Columbus — Nationwide Childrens Hospital Green Sticks
• Danville, PA — Geisinger Medical Center
• Houston (UTHealth/Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital) — Sarofim Tower & Medical Plaza (11/17-11/19); City Hall; Hazard, Woodhead, Dunlavy, Mandell, Graustark & Montrose Bridges along Corridor I-69 (11/18-11/19)
• Houston (Texas Children's Hospital) — Legacy Tower (Medical Center)
• Indianapolis — Riley Hospital for Children
• Iowa City — University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, Park Avenue Bridge, the Downtown Pedestrian Mall Stage and the New Public Works Building.
• Itasca, IL — American Academy of Pediatrics
• Kansas City — Children's Mercy Adele Hall Campus, Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas, Charlie's House, Kansas City Missouri City Hall, Children's Mercy Park Stadium - home of Sporting Kansas City
• Little Rock — Two Rivers bridge, Big Dam Bridge, Broadway Bridge, Main Street Bridge, Junction Bridge
• Minneapolis
• New York — Helmsley Building on Park Ave.
• Oklahoma City — Oklahoma City Children's Hospital at OU, Skydance Bridge
• Philadelphia — Ben Franklin Bridge, Lincoln Financial Field home of the Philadelphia Eagles NFL, Subaru Park Home of the MLS team The Philadelphia Union, Ronald McDonald House North Philadelphia, Boathouse Row, PECO Crown Lights
• Phoenix — Children's Hospital
• Pittsburgh — The Gulf Tower, Koppers building, Rugby Realty, The Offices of the City and County of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County Courthouse, UPMC Children's, UPMC Presbyterian - lighting up the cupola on top of the building, UPMC Williamsport, Janet Weis Children's Hospital Geisinger, Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital, UPMC Hamot (Erie)
• Providence — Hasbro Children's Hospital and Good Night Lights; Rhode Island State house (11/16-11/20)
• Rochester — Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong University of Rochester Medical Center; the City of Rochester Lights on Roc program will shine a green light on 5 downtown Rochester buildings
• Seattle — Harborview Medical Center
• St. Louis — St. Louis Children's Hospital, Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, the Ferris Wheel, the Magic House, the St. Louis Science Center planetarium, Christian Hospital EMS, St. Clare Hospital and St. Joseph's hospitals.
• Worcester — UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center Sherman Building, Burns Bridge

More than half of Injury Free's 40 partnering hospitals are promoting National Injury Prevention Day using social media including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Sites are boosting content online, producing and distributing injury prevention materials, including brochures, newsletters, flyers, coloring books and stickers.

A number of sites are encouraging employees to wear green, and promoting the day with hospital signage indoors and out.

Click on the provided links to view stories.

Austin: A news segment aired on the November 17th to promote child safety/injury and National Injury Prevention day. Dell Children's Hospital and Texas Gun Sense and did social media posts leading up to the day, an op-ed has been submitted to the Austin Statesman. An interview was also conducted on KXAN news (link to article).

Baltimore: On the 18th, Public Health on Call featured Injury Free and Injury Prevention Day, hosted by Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Associate Dean for Practice, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Listen to the pocast.

Birmingham:

• Children's Online Newsroom
• Birmingham Christian Family Magazine
• WVTM PSA
• WVTM Editorial
• WBRC-TV Good Day Alabama
• Minute with Children's: WBRC-TV (Birmingham), WAKA-TV (Montgomery), WHNT-TV (Huntsville), WKRG-TV (Mobile), WTVY (Dothan), Alabama Public Television (statewide)

Columbus: The Center for Injury Research and Policy staff wore green when their photo was captured and shared on National Injury Prevention Day. The event was posted using the @CIRPatNCH Twitter handle, the @nationwidekids Twitter handle, and the @PreventChildInj Twitter handle. Information about the event was also included in the Prevent Child Injury newsletter.

Houston: Texas Children's Hospital published an Op Ed in the Houston Chronicle and on the hospital blog.

Iowa City: National Injury Prevention Day was covered in the Injury Control Research Center's monthly injury blog. The Center also produced a zoom background that was shared across the country.

Injury Free Iowa took over the hospital Instagram on Nov. 18th with a "day in the life" theme showing injury prevention colleagues doing work in safe sleep, child passenger safety, ATV safety and teen driving safety. In addition, the site provided a large amount of the staff in the hospital with a pin they wore that said "I'm wearing green because...." The hope was that those efforts would encourage conversation about pediatric injury prevention.

Injury Free Iowa was also joined by other University of Iowa Departments and entities within their Institutions and they sent out social media posts about Injury Prevention Day. The Department of Transportation in Iowa took part as well by posting Injury Prevention messages on interstate signs.

Joplin, Missouri: The Joplin Globe covered local injury prevention efforts at Freeman Health System.

Kansas City:

• The Pitch, a monthly print publication that is Kansas City's source for progressive, independent, street-level coverage of news, arts, music, and culture covered National Injury Prevention Day.
• Major League Soccer Team Sporting Kansas City not only turned the stadium green, it also dedicated part of its newsletter to National Injury Prevention Day.

Minneapolis: In Hennepin County a weekly radio station show called Health Matters, a popular 1-hour show with call-in questions answered by experts in the field, featured Injury Prevention on November 18th. In addition to contributing to twitter chats, the PR Department also created a new injury prevention website.

Philadelphia: Injury Free Philadelphia, at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, has produced a website and a flier for Injury Prevention Day. Visit InjuryFreePhiladelphia.org and download the flier.

Seattle: Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center created a toolkit for Injury Prevention Day. The toolkit focuses on suicide prevention and safe storage of firearms. The center has partnered with Forefront, University of Washington's suicide prevention organization. Go to https://hiprc.org/nipd/.

St. Louis:

• KMOV Television News ran a story about hospitals teaming up to raise awareness about injury the need for Injury Prevention and Introduced National Injury Prevention Day. The story covers Firearm Injuries, Home Safety and a Gun Lock Giveaway being done at St. Louis Children's.
• The FOX2 News Now Morning Program had Dr. Lindsay Clukies on as a guest where she was able to talk about the need for National Injury Day and share information about the most prevalent injuries in St. Louis and ways they can those injuries can be prevented.
• St. Louis Hospitals and the BSmart organization teamed up to spread the news about National Injury Prevention Day in the Webster-Kirkwood Times newspaper. It is an electronic and print paper with a circulation is over 38,000 for section of the paper.
• St. Louis Children's Hospital also made sure to acknowledge the need for Injury Prevention by highlighting topics and Dr. Clukies on their website.
• LOV, the Life Outside of Violence program promoted the day with email blasts to their community partners, including the St. Louis Area Violence Prevention Committee.
• The Kirkwood Community Police Department was excited to participate and promote National Injury Prevention Day through Kirkwood Community Social Media sites, including the Kirkwood Public Library. Officer Baldridge, the Kirkwood Community Officer suggested posting throughout the week of November 18 to maximize exposure.

• Austin — Mayoral Proclamation
• Baltimore — Baltimore City Mayor's Office
• Boston — Mayoral Proclamation, Massachusetts State Senate Proclamation
• Coralville, Iowa — Mayoral Proclamation
• Houston — Mayoral Proclamation
• Indianapolis — Mayoral Proclamation and Gubernatorial Proclamations
• Iowa City — Gubernatorial Proclamation and Mayoral Proclamation
• Kansas City — Mayoral Proclamation
• Little Rock — Gubernatorial Proclamation
• Philadelphia — Mayoral Proclamation
• Pittsburgh — Mayoral Proclamation and Allegheny County Proclamation
• St. Louis — Mayoral Proclamation
• Waterloo, Iowa — Mayoral Proclamation
• Worcester — Mayoral Proclamation

On November 18th a number of Injury Prevention Centers held events and programs to raise awareness about the work they do. San Diego addressed child drownings, Kansas City tackled fire safety, Nashville looked at home safety, and Peoria, Illinois addressed child car passenger safety.

Click the links below to learn more.

• View a list of National Injury Prevention Day programs and events at Injury Free Coalition for Kids sites.
• View photos from National Injury Prevention Day events and programs.