As many of us scroll through our favorite news app, we are greeted by reports of workplace violence, from verbal and physical confrontations to fatal shootings. What is often missing from 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 ...

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 ...

Here’s a roundup of some of the workplace violence incidents that have happened at U.S. hospitals this month. In Oregon, an agitated man pointed a gun at a Salem Hospital security officer on August 11 ...

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 ...

Registered nurses at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., will hold a rally on Tuesday, Dec. 23, to ...

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 ...

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

The AUPE called the Christmas Day attack a violent incident that left a health-care worker injured and staff traumatized at ...

It is an epidemic with no apparent cure. Every year in America, two million workers — roughly the population of Houston — are victims of workplace violence, the third leading cause of fatal ...