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Central Coast residency program to train future doctors in caring for human trafficking victims
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Central Coast residency program to train future doctors in caring for human trafficking victims

Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria has a new residency program to train future doctors on how to treat people who have suffered from human trafficking. The hospital said this program started in 2016 in Sacramento and has slowly expanded to Redding, Northridge, and now the Central Coast. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates…

Dignity Health expands human trafficking Medical Safe Haven program to Santa Maria
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Dignity Health expands human trafficking Medical Safe Haven program to Santa Maria

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – Dignity Health announced the expansion of its Medical Safe Haven (MSH) program to the Family Medicine Center at Marian Regional Medical Center on Tuesday. In the MSH program, medical providers offer ongoing survivor-informed treatment for victims and survivors of human trafficking. Health officials said this treatment works in an integrated model…

Health Care Providers Are Missing Signs of Human Trafficking / Modern Slavery
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Health Care Providers Are Missing Signs of Human Trafficking / Modern Slavery

“88% of nearly a hundred trafficking victims had contact with a health care provider at some point while being trafficked” Thousands of sex trafficking victims filter through the U.S. health care system each year. Words and Photos by Isabella Gomes This article appeared in print as “What Doctors Are Missing” in the Spring 2020 issue of Hopkins Bloomberg…