When EMTALA collides hospital anti-violence signs, healthcare leaders face challenges ensuring emergency care without deterring patients.

When people hear “workplace violence,” they often picture a physical attack. But in health care settings, the more common ...

A federal court just made it clear: healthcare employers can't hide behind Medicare compliance when their workers face patient violence.

Dana Sammut gives her advice for how to respond to abuse from patients, based on findings from her own research.

ELKRIDGE, MD (March 12, 2025) – The Maryland Patient Safety Center has unveiled a new healthcare workplace violence campaign, Care Flows Both Ways, that highlights the need for patients and visitors ...

To curb violence, clinicians should enact policies that put employees first. This includes putting out a statement condemning violence against workers, training workers to deal with violence, ...

The American Hospital Association released its last Hospitals Against Violence Advisory Group guidelines. The guidelines focus on community-based violence interventions. The guidelines, titled ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - A Grimes County man has been sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of assaulting numerous staff members of the St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital in 2023. This ...

Violence against nurses and other health-care workers by patients is a serious problem but the B.C. Nurses’ Union, tired of waiting for health officials to deal with it, is taking unilateral steps to ...

DENVER — As clinicians move to comply with a national effort to curtail opioid prescribing in order to mitigate addiction and overdose risk, there may well be an associated increase in patient ...

A January 2016 Vancouver Sun article reported on 16 seniors in British Columbia (BC) killed in the last 4 years from violence in long-term care facilities. While the mention of violence in nursing ...