Press Release from PR Newswire ODS Security is now combining the principles of Family Centered Care with threatening behavior protection training to augment its protective services for healthcare and hospital security. ODS Security recognizes the increasing need for its hospital security guards to be trained in observing and recognizing threatening behavior to avert the growing [...]

By Heather Mayer, DOTmed News The woman came to the emergency room in an ambulance. She had overdosed on medication while driving her car. An emergency room nurse at a community hospital in Pennsylvania fed the patient, who was still under the influence of drugs, a drink referred to as charcoal. Thick and black, it’s [...]

By Bridget M. Kuehn, The Journal of The American Medical Association In October 2006, Chicago dermatologist David Cornbleet, MD, was found stabbed to death in his downtown office. The assailant, according to media accounts, was a former patient, who later confessed that he had returned to Cornbleet’s office 4 years after his first visit and [...]

By John Commins, HealthLeaders Media Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick this summer signed into law a bill that stiffens criminal penalties for those who assault on-duty nurses and other healthcare providers. The new law treats assaults on healthcare professionals doing their jobs as a separate crime with its own set of penalties—extending to healthcare providers the [...]

from Hartford Courant The U.S. Department of Labor could fine a Connecticut hospital more than $6,000 after citing the medical center for failing to protect its workers from violent patients. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Friday that a six-month investigation determined that Danbury Hospital has not put in enough measures to prevent staff [...]

from The Patriot Ledger After failing year after year, a bill that lengthens jail sentences for people who attack health-care workers has been signed into law. “This is such a great thing,” said Sheila Wilson, a registered nurse from Quincy who watched Gov. Deval Patrick sign the bill Friday. “People are finally taking health-care violence [...]

Press Release from Massachusetts Nurses Association Surrounded by registered nurses and legislators, Governor Deval Patrick today signed a law that will stiffen the penalties for those who assault nurses and other health care workers, one of a series of measures the state’s nurses are proposing to address the growing problem of workplace violence in health [...]

By Jenn Marshall, Nanaimo News Bulletin Violence prevention efforts paid off for the Vancouver Island Health Authority in the form of provincial recognition for its training program. The health authority’s violence prevention team received an award of merit in the workplace health innovation category at the Health Employers Association of B.C.’s Excellence in B.C. Healthcare [...]

By Madonna Behen, Bloomberg Businessweek More and more violent crimes are occurring in America’s hospitals, clinics and other health care facilities, according to a new alert issued by the Joint Commission, an independent health care oversight group. Since 2004, there have been “significant increases in reports of assault, rape and homicide, with the greatest number [...]