June 14, 2018
Perhaps clashing with a typical view of America’s Heartland, many homicides in Omaha – Nebraska’s largest city – are the result of gang activity, says Dr. Charity Evans, a trauma surgeon at Nebraska Medical Center. Hospitals and emergency rooms in Omaha and across the country often see the “downstream effects of violence,” and many want to take a more proactive approach, says Evans, who also is a leader of the hospital system’s violence prevention efforts. “Why are those ZIP codes experiencing that level of violence? And if we’re able to intervene in that area, how can we prevent that from occurring?”
