A 38-year-old patient in a mental health crisis broke off a metal rod from his emergency room bed and assaulted four workers ...
Leelama Lal, the nurse nearly beaten to blindness by a patient, says HCA Florida Palms West Hospital ignored appeals to ...
A study showed that more than 28% of patients who exhibited violent behavior continued exhibiting that violence in subsequent healthcare settings, often beginning out-of-hospital and continuing in the ...
An emergency room nurse from a UPMC hospital in Pennsylvania was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital over the weekend after police said he was violently attacked by a patient. According to a criminal ...
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on February 13 that Cedar Springs Hospital failed its employees by not taking basic steps to protect staff from violent patient attacks. The decision gives HR ...
Just days before Christmas 2024, a group of female teen patients broke into the nurse’s station and medication room at a psychiatric hospital in Raleigh, where they tore down parts of the ceiling, ...
Workplace and community violence in American hospitals not only inflicts pain and trauma on healthcare workers. It also drives costs higher for an already stretched hospital system. A recent research ...
Serious workplace violent incidents are four times more likely to occur in healthcare environments than in private industry. In fact, healthcare accounts for nearly as many serious violent injuries as ...
Attempting to prevent, prepare for and recover from violent acts in 2023 cost hospitals $18.3 billion, according to a new report from the American Hospital Association. Violent incidents have been ...
A hospital-based program that supports victims of gun and knife violence can reduce the likelihood that those victims will be reinjured or commit violence themselves, according to a new Boston ...
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