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KPIX 5 (CBS/San Francisco) honored Rochelle Dicker, M.D., a trauma surgeon at SFGH, with its Jefferson Award for her work in stemming the epidemic of violent injuries at San Francisco General Hospital through the San Francisco Wraparound Project which she is Director of: San Francisco General Hospital said a third of the shooting, stabbing and beating victims it treats return to the emergency room, injured from yet another crime. But one doctor has come up with a way to stop the revolving door of violence. This week's Jefferson Award winner said there is a teachable moment when a badly [...]

Dr. Rochelle Dicker was honored at the annual Heroes & Hearts event held by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. The honor was bestoyed in recognition of Dr. Dicker's exceptional and inspirational work on behalf of patients and the community. Heroes & Hearts began in 2006 and brings the Bay Area community together to: Celebrate the essential role The General plays in our City and its community impact Continue the Hearts in San Francisco project Honor local heroes whose actions improve our community Raise funds to support the Foundation's mission The fundraiser is [...]

NBC Latino reports on the work of San Francisco General Hospital's violence-intervention program, The San Francisco Wraparound Project: Javier Antezana is one of the first people to approach a patient's bedside when doctors rush a gunshot victim to the emergency room but he's no surgeon. As a case manager for the San Francisco General Hospital's violence-intervention program, his job is to think past the hospital stay, to the critical 24-48 hour window when the victim is most likely to retaliate. "I tell them 'You don't have to prove yourself to your gang, to your community to anybody,'" [...]

KPIX 5 (Oakland KCBS) reports on the prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among young gunshot victims, a phenomenon typically linked to soldiers of war:  After Emergency Room doctors patch up a young gunshot victim, the patient is given time to recover from the physical wound. While time may heal, there is still the mental wound that lingers according to Anne Marks, the executive director of Oakland-based Youth Alive—an urban violence prevention organization. Many young gunshot victims are experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), something that was initially [...]

Missionlocal.org reports on a story entitled "The Gang War That Wasn't" in which representatives of the San Francisco Wraparound Project played a critical role in averting violence after angry members of rival gangs converged on SFGH's Emergency Room. Did the Mission avert a gang war? At a community meeting last week at Mission Police Station, Capt. Greg Corrales for the first time offered details on the fatal shooting of Aldo "Trigger" Troncoso - the neighborhood's first homicide of the year - and the aftermath. Stories of violence averted are not often told, but that's the story Corrales [...]

Dr. Rochelle Dicker received the 2010 Chancellor's Award for Public Service in the faculty/academic category.  The award was recognition of her work as Director and Founder of the Wraparound Project for Comprehensive Rehabilitation, an outstanding violence prevention program that has developed a new approach to the care of the violently injured by instituting a program, based on the public health model of injury prevention, to reduce injury recidivism.  

A note written to the Director of Wraparound concerning Case Managers by social worker, Amy Furr: "I am one of the night shift ED social workers and I had to take a minute this morning to tell you how amazing Javier and Ricardo were last night. As I am sure you heard, or will hear, there were two shootings last night, two people were killed and one man is on 4E with an unsurvivable injury. Given all of the events last night, there was no way I could have provided support to all of the families that were grieving and needing to see their loved ones. Javier and Ricardo both stayed at the [...]

The San Francisco Examiner reports on the increase in violence from gunshot or stab wounds in patients admitted to SFGH: The number of victims with gunshot or stab wounds admitted to San Francisco General Hospital has climbed over the last five years, with more than 440 patients either shot or knifed in 2007. The percentage of patients who die as a result of the wounds, called "penetrating injuries," has dropped slightly, with trauma surgeons, doctors and nurses saving 79 percent of shooting victims last year, compared with 76 percent in 2003. "Unfortunately, the sad part of having so much [...]