The mask protects hospital staff by hindering a combative patient's ability to bite or spit. Being in a hospital can be stressful. Some patients take their frustration out on caretakers. This can be ...

JACKSON, MI – A nurse at Henry Ford Jackson Hospital was stabbed while on the job last week when a patient became combative and pulled out a knife. Police were called at about 7 a.m., Feb. 13, to the ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KATU) — A patient in Oregon caused a half-hour-long standoff with police when he became aggressive and barricaded himself inside the ambulance on Thursday, police said. Shortly ...

BRAINERD — An 18-year-old Brainerd man was arrested and charged with misdemeanor fifth-degree assault following an incident in the emergency room Wednesday, Dec. 17, at Essentia Health-St. Joseph's ...

SPRINGFIELD — When Dr. Mark Kenton does his daily rounds, he’s taking the pulse of Mercy Medical Center’s entire Department of Emergency Medicine. Kenton wants to know how many patients are there, how ...

Texas Children’s Hospital is facing $15,625 in penalties after a security officer was hospitalized in an attack, according to federal authorities. During the Nov. 10, 2022, attack, authorities said ...

PARIS — The rise in violent incidents at hospitals and doctors' offices has led clinicians to be on constant lookout for ways to keep themselves safe while caring for patients. At SantExpo 2023, well ...

A new survey from Premier has found that 40% of healthcare workers have experienced at least one incident of workplace violence within the past two years, with the violence occurring most frequently ...

A medical transport helicopter made an emergency landing in Belleview, Fla., Wednesday morning due to an unruly patient on board, reports Ocala Star-Banner. The ShandsCair helicopter was transporting ...

Three months after he allegedly attacked a nurse and spat on another, a criminal summons is active for the man accused in the matter. Gary Collen, 29, of Bismarck, is charged with a Class C felony ...

Prosecutors released new evidence against the Illinois EMS workers accused of killing their patient. An audio recording from the ambulance showed one EMS worker refusing to take vital signs. An expert ...