Hospitals: We Have a Bigger Problem than Guns (Learn More, Multi-Video)

One OSHA publication reported that the national average for injuries caused by assault is 3%, but for healthcare workers, it’s 10-11%. Another reported that 80% of all healthcare worker injuries came at the hands of the very people they are trying to help, patients.

Guest Editorial by Thomas Egan, Director of Security and Hospital Police, NYC Health + Hospitals, and a 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winner. We have a workplace violence problem in healthcare that goes way beyond the debate of whether we should arm security in our hospitals. Despite some evidence that gun violence is on the rise … Continue reading Hospitals: We Have a Bigger Problem than Guns (Learn More, Multi-Video)