ST PETERSBURG, Fla. September 3 2019 A transient man was arrested Saturday after police say he threatened to shoot everyone at Bayfront Health and blow up the hospital. Kenneth Joseph Hunt, 57, is also accused of assaulting a security guard, according to an affidavit. Police were called to Bayfront Health Saturday for a disturbance. They said Hunt […]
Little Rock AR Sept 3 2019 A Little Rock man was arrested at CHI St. Vincent’s Infirmary on Sunday morning after police said they saw him spitting on a security guard and threatening to injure responding officers with their own weapons, an arrest report said. Little Rock police saw Lamont Taylor, 59, spitting on security […]
North Little Rock AR, September 2 2019 A North Little Rock police officer pepper-sprayed a man who was handcuffed in a hospital bed Friday night after the man tried to kick the officer and members of the medical staff, an arrest report said. North Little Rock police arrested Antonio Deshawn Jarrett, 29, on a charge […]
WASHINGTON DC Aug 30 2019 The nation’s 15 million health care workers are increasingly under attack on the job. Advocates and even some federal lawmakers say delays in the creation of enforceable regulations to protect them will continue to put them at risk, potentially for decades. The very real threat against nurses and doctors is […]
DeKalb County GA Aug 28 2019 The former director of security for a DeKalb County hospital has been indicted on 19 charges after allegedly stealing almost 100 firearms to sell for his own personal gain, authorities said. Russell Richardson, 43, of Dallas, N.C., was the director of security for DeKalb Medical Center — now named […]
WHEELING WV Aug 26 2019 An elderly man shot and killed himself Wednesday afternoon in an examination room at Wheeling Hospital’s emergency-trauma center. “An 82-year-old man did die from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in an exam room inside the emergency room according to police. No other patients were harmed,” a hospital spokesperson said Thursday. Philip Stahl, […]
WATERLOO IA Aug 25 2019 A Waterloo man has been arrested for allegedly threatening a hospital security guard with a knife Wednesday morning. According to court records, Curtis Joseph Kirby, 27, was a patient at UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital when he allegedly threatened staff in the emergency department. When a security guard entered the room, Kirby allegedly […]
Lancaster PA Aug 24 2019 A combative woman tried to take a child and attacked a security officer at Lancaster General Hospital Thursday morning, according to police. Around 10:43 a.m., Lancaster City police were called to the hospital, 555 N. Duke Street, because security was requesting assistance with a combative person. At the hospital, a […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Aug 20 2019 A 60-year-old woman tried to smother her husband with a pillow as he was in a hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, police say. Barbara Jones was booked into the Metro jail Sunday on a charge of attempted criminal homicide. According to an arrest affidavit, Vanderbilt police responded Saturday to […]
RALEIGH, N.C. Aug 20 2019— A man who worked as a nurse at WakeMed is facing kidnapping and sex offense charges in connection with an incident in Wilson last week. James Christopher Webb, 59, of Louisburg, was arrested Friday at a parking deck at the hospital, which is located at 3000 New Bern Avenue. A […]