CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. October 18 2019 The Cape Girardeau City Council approved the hiring of five police officers as security at St. Francis Medical Center. The hospital will cover salaries, benefits and will allow a cop to be on hospital grounds 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The city council approved the measure by […]
Los Angeles CA October 9 2019 More than 5,000 U.S. hotels and resorts have begun offering employees security devices and training to help prevent sexual harassment — a problem that has gained prominence with the #MeToo movement and has been targeted by union leaders in Southern California. A hotel trade group announced the progress Monday, […]
DETROIT MI October 4 2019 The Detroit Medical Center has announced that they are changing how they provide security at their campus. The hospital employs approximately 150 security officers and many are retired, decorated Detroit cops. But now, there’s a shakeup at DMC hospitals. Their parent company, Tenet, plans to lay off some of the […]
PADUCAH KY Oct 3 2019 — Police say a man was arrested after he spat on an EMS worker and a hospital nurse in Paducah, knowing that he had a highly contagious disease. Police say he also groped the EMS responder. When 51-year-old Joseph P. Spencer was picked up Monday evening by a Mercy EMS ambulance, […]
Sydney AU Sept 19 2019 There are calls for special constables to be installed in Australian health facilities as confronting footage of the violence faced by health employees continues to emerge. Disturbing footage captured in a Sydney mental health intensive seven years ago was given to A Current Affair to illustrate the prolonged trauma facing […]
OKLAHOMA CITY OK Sept 15 2019 South West Medical Center was placed on lockdown Wednesday evening after a man threatened to take hostages and barricaded himself in a women’s bathroom police said. Officers received a call referencing suspicious activity where a caller stated: “I’m going to walk in someplace and take hostages, possibly a child.” When police […]
PASCAGOULA, Miss. Sept 14 2019 Singing River Health Systems is now the first hospital in Mississippi to have a canine officer on its security team. Jester is trained in the scent detection of explosive devices and patrol duties. Jackson County Court Judge Mark Watts swore in the newest addition to the force and a very unique […]
New York NY Sept 11 2019 An NYPD cop was pelted with a cup of urine while working in Bellevue Hospital Wednesday — the latest in a line of assaults that have rocked the department, police said. The stomach-churning incident happened about 8:40 p.m. inside the hospital’s psychiatric ward, where the officer was assigned to a […]
Waco TX Sept 9 2019 Waco police used pepper spray and a less-lethal projectile Friday night to subdue a man in a local intensive care unit who had armed himself with a syringe with medication inside, a day after Teague police shot the man, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said in a press release. Waco […]
Walla Walla WA September 7 2019 Providence St. Mary Medical Center will add a K-9 to its security team this fall. The Poplar Street medical center becomes the latest health care campus to add a trained dog to its staff after Providence introduced the first K-9 unit to a Washington state hospital at the start of […]