TOLEDO, Ohio Aug 28 2020— There will soon be a new K-9 officer roaming the halls of ProMedica Toledo Hospital, providing protection and comfort to visitors and patients. Sonar is a two-year-old German Shepherd Dog. He’ll join K-9 Jozef Creed (known as “JC”) on security detail at the medical facility in about four weeks. ProMedica Security […]
SPOKANE, Wash Aug 24 2020— Spokane police said the suspicious device found out Providence Sacred Heart Hospital on Thursday night appears to be a pipe bomb. A concerned citizen alerted Sacred Heart security about a potential pipe bomb just before 7 p.m. on Thursday, police said. The person had found the device in the area […]
Sandusky, Ohio Aug 23 2020 Police responded to the 700 block of Taft Avenue for a woman causing issues at the hospital. Officers had transported her there earlier for making suicidal statements. Police heard a woman yelling in the emergency room when they arrived. They found the woman pushing a security guard out of a […]
Greely CO Aug 22 2020 A 25-year-old man has a court date scheduled Friday on allegations he bit an EMT and headbutted a security guard at a Greeley hospital. Greeley police responded about 4:15 a.m. Aug. 13 to the UCHealth Greeley Hospital, 6767 29th St. Once on scene, police learned Eric Leafgren, 25, bit the index […]
York PA Aug 16 2020 A 21-year-old Spring Grove man is facing multiple charges after a July assault when he allegedly hit a nurse and bit at least two security guards at Wellspan York Hospital. According to court documents, Dalton Dunkin was brought to the hospital on July 20 when he asked a nurse, Alexis Lamp, […]
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. Aug 15 2020— Two hospital employees are suing a patient who shot them with a security officer’s firearm at The Medical Center at Bowling Green. Emily Roderick, a certified medical assistant, and Billy Pigue, a hospital security officer, filed the lawsuit last week in Warren Circuit Court against 42-year-old Jeffrey Fields, reports […]
Arcadia CA Aug 4 2020 Around 50 hospitals today use a technology from a company called SwipeSense to monitor whether medical staff are washing their hands when they enter and exit patient rooms. Others use it to track expensive assets, like wheelchairs or IV pumps, which have a tendency to go missing. The system leverages […]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. July 27 2020 A man is facing attempted kidnapping and vandalism charges after allegedly trying to take a 2-week-old child from its mother. Knoxville Police received a call before 3:30 p.m. Thursday of an attempted kidnapping outside Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center on Laurel Avenue near 20th Street. Multiple callers advised that a white […]
Norfolk VA July 26 2020 A Norfolk man was arrested Tuesday after causing a disturbance at Faith Regional Health Services. The Norfolk Police Division was dispatched to the emergency room at Faith Regional around 6:30 p.m. after hospital security requested assistance. Steven Vargas, 21, of Norfolk, who was previously dropped off by a family member, was […]
Phoenix AZ July 24 2020 Jeff Orsborn, a security guard at Banner-University Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, was hospitalized for a week with COVID-19. The frequency of crises he helps defuse are way up amid the pandemic. Orsborn’s own bout with COVID-19 has given him special empathy for COVID patients and their families at Banner-University Medical […]