MTI America’s Director of Clinical Innovation to Speak about Human Trafficking at CMSA’s National Conference

MTI America announced that the company’s director of clinical
innovation, Jeanine Zukerman, will speak at an annual conference for
workers’ compensation nurse case managers about the importance of
identifying and helping potential victims of human trafficking.

Zukerman will address attendees of the Case
Management Society of America’s annual conference, held in Las Vegas
June 10-14 at the Mirage Hotel & Casino.

In her speech, titled “Human Trafficking for Healthcare Providers,”
Zukerman will discuss the ethical, practical and legal aspects of
identifying and reporting potential human trafficking activity.

A form of modern-day slavery, human trafficking is a crime involving the
exploitation of someone for the purposes of compelled labor or
commercial sex acts. Trafficked victims are often foreign nationals and
younger people.

“We tend to think human trafficking happens in other people’s
neighborhoods and to other people, but it often happens just as easily
and often right around us,” Zukerman says.

Those in the healthcare industry are in a unique position to identify
the physical and emotional signs that someone may be a victim of
trafficking.

“As nurses and other care professionals in the healthcare industry,
we’re rightfully held to high ethical standards that include reporting
potential crimes such as domestic violence,” Zukerman says. “It’s
important for us also to know what to look for, and what to do about,
human trafficking.”

Florida is one of two states where nurses are required by law to
complete training on how to identify and report potential crimes such as
human trafficking. Attendees of Zukerman’s speech will receive relevant
continuing education credits, including ethics.

Zukerman is currently president of the Central Florida chapter of the
Case Management Society of America, which represents health care case
managers around the country.

About MTI America

MTI America delivers ancillary healthcare solutions to workers’
compensation patients, adjusters and case managers. Headquartered in
Pompano Beach, Florida, MTI has experienced solid growth over the past
five years, expanding from 190 employees to more than 240, and recently
opened a second location in Tempe, Arizona. For more information, visit mtiamerica.com
or LinkedIn (MTI America).

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Yvonne Guibert
Ph: 813-245-0193
MTI America, marketing / media
consultant
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