A bill in the Ohio legislature would require health systems and hospitals to create security plans for preventing workplace violence and handling aggressive behaviors. The Healthcare Workplace Safety ...

Another state has decided to regulate workplace violence in nursing homes and other healthcare facilities amid a delay in the development of federal rules.

Public safety isn’t a privilege — it’s a basic right. It matters everywhere — for the retail worker behind the counter, the doctor or nurse treating a patient, the fan at a football game, and the ...

Workplace violence is a complex topic and subject to complicated regulations. Successful policies address violence in the ...

Hospitals and health systems are making headway when it comes to preventing infections, combating workplace violence and protecting the safety of patients, but according to a new American Hospital ...

If you ask a healthcare worker if they have witnessed or personally been affected by workplace violence, there is a very high likelihood they would say yes. Sadly, workplace violence in healthcare has ...

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 ...

America’s hospitals are under siege—not from disease, but from violence. Healthcare workers face an alarming surge in assaults, with nurses, doctors, and security personnel on the front lines of an ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A visit to the hospital might be one of the last places you’d expect to see violence, and hospital staff and patients aren’t immune. “A few years ago, we actually had a back-to-back ...

In a bipartisan vote Tuesday, the Pennsylvania House passed the Healthcare Workplace Violence Prevention Act, which would establish violence prevention committees in all hospitals. The committees ...

SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, which represents healthcare workers, is circulating the petition in an effort to improve workplace safety across all healthcare systems.