Patient aggression towards receptionists working in general practice is a "serious workplace safety concern," concludes a review of the available evidence published in Family Medicine and Community ...
In May, surveyors issued Jefferson Health’s Abington (Pa.) Hospital an immediate jeopardy warning after determining a security guard used excessive force against a psychiatric patient who had not ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — A caretaker at a Mount Pleasant facility is suspected of assaulting a memory care patient. Sukinah Misyulina Knox, 45, is charged with abuse of a vulnerable adult. She ...
Aggressive behavior of patients is noticeably increasing in clinics and medical practices. High time pressure, overcrowded waiting rooms, and often unrealistic expectations among patients can cause ...
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 in Houston has been cited by the Labor Department’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration for failing to protect employees from physical assaults by aggressive ...
When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and psychiatric issues, the risks multiply. Dr. Asif Merchant is a physician and medical ...