While shootings inside hospitals remain extremely rare, violence in health care settings more broadly is a growing national concern.A patient and a visitor are ...

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

Health system CEOs keep focus on gun violence prevention by advancing interventions and sustaining efforts to reduce firearm deaths and injuries.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho – Violence against hospital staff is on the rise, and Kootenai Health is taking steps to address the issue. A 2023 survey shows that simple assaults in hospitals more than doubled ...

The gunman arrived at UPMC Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania carrying a bag with a handgun and zip ties, authorities said. He went straight to the Intensive Care Unit, where he held staff members ...

Health care workers suffer five times more violence than any other industry, yet the issue often goes unnoticed—until a high-profile tragedy, like the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian ...

Researchers from MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown Law identified three practical strategies to balance ...

Hospital-based police departments in Pennsylvania have arrest powers, carry firearms and the authority to investigate crimes on their campuses.

James Phillips was working as an emergency physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston in 2015 when a man walked into Brigham and Women’s Hospital across the street and shot and killed ...

In response to the February shooting at UPMC Memorial, the state House of Representatives has passed a bill intended to curb workplace violence in healthcare facilities. The bill, called the ...

Effective July 1, hospitals and other healthcare institutions licensed in Virginia are required to establish a workplace violence reporting system to track, analyze and respond to incidents of ...