LEOMINSTER MA Oct 20 2017 — A Fitchburg man was arrested and placed in protective custody early Thursday morning on charges he assaulted a nurse and a security guard at HealthAlliance Hospital, police said. It was the second incident in less than two weeks in which a patient was charged with attacking hospital staff. Gerald V. […]
SAGINAW, MI Oct 16 2017 — Police are still piecing together what took place after a patient fired a handgun inside a third-floor room at Covenant HealthCare late Saturday night in Saginaw. Officers from the Saginaw Police Department responded shortly before midnight Saturday, Oct. 14 to the hospital at Cooper and North Michigan avenues for […]
TAUNTON MA Oct 16 2017 — Three people, including a patient, who police say engaged in a crack-cocaine transaction in a hospital room last week will be summoned into district court to face drug charges. Taunton police say they were alerted at 10 p.m. by Morton Hospital’s security department that the three had been observed […]
Bartlett AK Oct 15 2017 A Juneau man detained was quickly detained by hospital security after an explosion and fire at Bartlett Regional Hospital. The man was then charged with felony arson in the second degree. A Juneau grand jury indicted Arlo Michael Bradstreet, 32, on Thursday. About 3 a.m. Oct. 4, witnesses in the […]
Pasadena CA Oct 12 2017 A total of 22 hospital security personnel attended HASC’s IAHSS Security & Safety Certification Program last month. Each attendee received instruction on basic level health care security and skills. Participants then applied their training by completing the International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety Basic Level Certification test — 17 […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio Oct 7 2017 A man was arrested at Nationwide Children’s Hospital after he was caught by security officers streaming on Facebook with a gun. According to police, Stacey Allison, Jr.’s child was a patient at the hospital. Allison was in the child’s room early Thursday morning, recording himself on Facebook Live and posing […]
CANTON OH Oct 4 2017 A newly released Mercy Medical Center patient is accused of stealing a car that had just been parked outside the hospital’s emergency room. Police said the accused car thief was only gone about a half an hour. He brought the car back, said Lt. John Bosley of the Canton Police Department’s […]
JOLIET ILL Sept 30 2017 – A Joliet man was allegedly aggressive with security guards at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center and kicked a female guard in the pelvis, police said. After 11 p.m. Wednesday, Lyle W. Williams Sr., 47, of the 2000 block of Oneida Street, was at the hospital’s emergency room waiting to be […]
LAS VEGAS NV Sept 26 2017 – A man in police custody in a Las Vegas hospital emergency room was shot and killed by an officer early Monday after the man took a stun gun from a jail guard’s bag left alone with him in a room and pointed it at a hospital security guard and […]
LOUISVILLE, KY Sept 21 2017 A man caused anxious moments inside the emergency department of a hospital when he attempted to disarm a security officer. An arrest report says a Louisville Metro police homicide detective was at University of Louisville Hospital on the afternoon of Sept. 17 when he saw Charles Mudd, 26, of Louisville, lunge […]