Eighty-five health systems are participating in a gun safety campaign aimed at reducing the epidemic of gun deaths across the country.
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health started the project, Hospitals United, in September. Since then, 84 health systems have signed on, promising to teach their community members the importance of asking family and friends whether they have unlocked guns in their homes. Print, broadcast and digital ads, as well as billboards, have since been popping up around the country.
The idea was spawned by more than 100 healthcare marketing and communications executives who have been meeting regularly for a decade to discuss how they could help curtail gun violence. Dozens of children's hospitals are also taking part.
Here are the participating health systems as of late December:
Advocate Aurora Health (Downers Grove, Ill., and Milwaukee)
Atlantic Health System (Morristown, N.J.)
AtlantiCare (Atlantic City, N.J.)
Atrium Health (Charlotte, N.C.)
Banner Health (Phoenix)
Baystate Health (Springfield, Mass.)
Beaumont Health (Southfield, Mich.)
Beebe Healthcare (Lewes, Del.)
BJC Healthcare (St. Louis)
Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles)
ChristianaCare (Newark, Del.)
CHRISTUS Health (Irving, Texas)
Cleveland Clinic
CommonSpirit Health (Chicago)
Covenant Health (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Dartmouth Health (Lebanon, N.H.)
Detroit Medical Center
Geisinger (Danville, Pa.)
Hackensack Meridian Health (Edison, N.J.)
Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare
Hennepin Healthcare (Minneapolis)
Inova Health System (Falls Church, Va.)
Jefferson Health (Philadelphia)
Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore)
Kadlec (Richland, Wash.)
Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.)
Keck Medicine of USC (Los Angeles)
LCMC Health (New Orleans)
M Health Fairview (Minneapolis)
Main Line Health (Radnor Township, Pa.)
Memorial Healthcare System (Hollywood, Fla.)
Memorial Hermann Health System (Houston)
MemorialCare (Fountain Valley, Calif.)
Mercy (St. Louis)
Michigan Medicine (Ann Arbor)
Mount Sinai Health System (New York City)
MultiCare Health System (Tacoma, Wash.)
National Jewish Health (Denver)
North Memorial Health (Robbinsdale, Minn.)
NorthShore – Edward-Elmhurst Health (Evanston and Warrenville, Ill.)
Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.)
Northwestern Medicine (Chicago)
Novant Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Ochsner Health (New Orleans)
Oregon Health & Science University (Portland)
OSF HealthCare (Peoria, Ill.)
Palomar Health (Escondido, Calif.)
PeaceHealth (Vancouver, Wash.)
Penn Medicine (Philadelphia)
Prime Healthcare (Ontario, Calif.)
Prisma Health (Greenville, S.C.)
Providence (Renton, Wash.)
Providence Swedish (Seattle)
Redeemer Health (Meadowbrook, Pa.)
Renown Health (Reno, Nev.)
Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health
RWJBarnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.)
Saint Francis Health System (Tulsa, Okla.)
Scripps Health (San Diego)
Sharp HealthCare (San Diego)
Spectrum Health (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
SSM Health (St. Louis)
Stanford Health Care (Palo Alto, Calif.)
Sutter Health (Sacramento, Calif.)
Temple University Health System (Philadelphia)
The Queen's Health System (Honolulu)
Tower Health (West Reading, Pa.)
Trinity Health (Livonia, Mich.)
Tufts Medicine (Burlington, Mass.)
UC Riverside (Calif.) Health
UC San Diego Health
UCI Health (Orange, Calif.)
UCLA Health (Los Angeles)
UCSF Health (San Francisco)
UNC Health (Morrisville, N.C.)
University of Chicago Medicine
University of Iowa Health Care (Iowa City)
University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center
University of Vermont Medical Center (Burlington)
UVA Health (Charlottesville, Va.)
UW Health (Madison, Wis.)
UW Medicine (Seattle)
VCU Health (Richmond, Va.)
Virtua Health (Marlton, N.J.)
Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health