San Francisco, California May 17 2021— The San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) on May 4 presented a plan to the Health Commission to reduce the number of sheriff’s deputies who guard public hospitals and clinics in San Francisco, and instead rely on additional psychiatric nurses and mental health professionals to handle crises. About […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. May 17 2021 APD’s SWAT team has arrested a man in connection to Wednesday’s triple homicide that led to three bodies being dropped off at Kaseman Hospital. Two of the victims have also been identified. Richard Kuykendall, 41, is being charged federally with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. The complaint […]
Long Beach CA May 15 2021 St. Mary Medical Center did not provide its security officers with adequate protection against the spread of the coronavirus, said a complaint filed this week with the state’s worker safety agency against Dignity Health, the Long Beach facility’s operator. Dignity Health has denied the allegations. But the Long Beach […]
SHELBY, N.C. May 14 2021— Police are investigating after two men were found dead Monday inside a car parked at Atrium Health Cleveland in Shelby. Just before 4 p.m., Shelby police officers were called to the hospital on East Grover Street. They met hospital security at the Emergency Department entrance and were directed to a […]
JOLIET, IL May 14 2021 A 19-year-old Joliet resident was arrested earlier this week after Joliet police say he punched two of the security guards in the face at the AMITA Health Saint Joseph Medical Center. Joliet officers responded to the hospital and arrested Brian Guzman-Pena on charges of DUI-drugs, two counts of aggravated battery and […]
PUEBLO CO May 10 2021 An altercation between security officers and a man at St. Mary Corwin hospital has now been classified as a homicide. While not revealing may details, police said that they had responded to the hospital on Feb. 10, 2021 regarding a disturbance. When officers arrived, they found medical staff rendering aid […]
Atlantic City NJ May 10 2021 Video of an Atlantic City couple’s interaction with a hospital security guard has garnered local attention, and response from the hospital. “You’re scaring my daughter,” Nigia Nelson is heard saying as the video begins, with just the security guard in the frame. The woman’s 4-year-old daughter was bleeding from a […]
Beaver County PA May 7 2021 A former part-time Washington Hospital police officer filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit last week claiming the health system terminated him after he brought up concerns to the hospital’s leadership about a toxic work environment and other alleged issues within the police department. Mark Kolakowski alleges the hospital’s police department had […]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. May 3 2021— Two years ago, an eagle-eyed security guard at Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton spied a gun handle in Kiel Newton’s waistband inside the hospital, said police. Security officers quickly disarmed the New Brighton resident of a loaded .38-caliber revolver on Jan. 9, 2019, averting a potentially dangerous […]
NORMAN, Oklahoma May 3 2021– Two Norman Regional Hospital security guards, Dennis Brewer and Justin Bishop were stationed outside the emergency department entrance as Wednesday night’s hail storm approached the city. “You could hear the hail coming half a mile to three-quarters of a mile away because it was sounding like a cattle drive, and […]