Domestic Violence

Emergency Room Nurses Will Ask Women About Abuse

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 14th, 1998

The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in California began a first of its kind program this month (September 1998) by asking female emergency room patients if they've been subjected to domestic violence in the past year.

The personal queries will break new ground in the way California hospitals deal with domestic violence.

Emergency room nurses at the hospital will ask every female patient whether her boyfriend(s) or husband have either hit or threatened to hit her in the past year. If she says yes, a team of experts will be mobilized.

"For the first time, it's like we're saying, 'Domestic violence is spoken here.' We're telling...

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