HealthTech November 30, 2021
With an uptick in workplace violence against healthcare workers, organizations must improve their security monitoring strategies to protect employees.
A Missouri hospital is implementing panic buttons for nurses and other staff after a sharp increase in attacks by patients over the past year. Over the summer, an upstate New York healthcare system announced the deployment of security alert buttons for its workers.
One healthcare system CEO even penned an open letter to his community addressing the rising violence against healthcare workers and pleading for a stop to the assaults.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, workplace violence against healthcare workers has been steadily increasing, according to 2018 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Recently, the violence seems to...
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