Dubois County IN June 9 2017 Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center issued a statement regarding the arrest of a woman impersonating hospital personnel Monday evening. “We experienced an unusual incident last evening. Around 4:45 p.m., a person entered the Pavilion entrance and made their way into a non-patient care area of the hospital. While […]
ST LOUIS MO June 9 2017— A man is suing a St. Louis hospital and security guards, citing alleged assault, battery and unlawful imprisonment. Christopher Happel filed a complaint on May 26 in the St. Louis Circuit Court against BJH Health System and Does 1-6, alleging that they violated plaintiff’s constitutional rights. According to the […]
SALT LAKE CITY UT June 5 2017 — Primary Children’s Hospital got a scare over the weekend as police attempted to take a man who barricaded himself in a bathroom into custody. On Friday, Kenneth Ray Underwood, 54, who is listed as homeless, walked into the hospital and barricaded himself inside a restroom on the […]
Lorma Linda CA June 5 2017 On May 31, 2017, Loma Linda Deputy B. Ortiz was dispatched to a call of an assault upon a security guard at the Loma Linda University Medical Center. Ortiz conducted an investigation and arrested a person later identified as Jeremy Eger, 28, of San Bernardino. Ortiz detained Eger for […]
Mobile AL June 5 2017 The Alabama Supreme Court has upheld a million-dollar jury verdict against Mobile Infirmary and one of its security guards. The 2013 clash between security guard Shawn Scott Poff and hospital visitor Jennifer McIntyre led to a situation with some unusual twists: A hospital security video was used against the hospital […]
Libertyville IL June 3 2017 Police say that a woman who was asked to leave a patient’s room became disorderly and combative when security was called. According to the police report, Tawnya Leyan Werthman, 45, of the 1600 block of Amarias Drive, Round Lake, was charged May 23 with battery. According to the reports, Werthman […]
Washington DC June 2 2017 The Metropolitan Police Department, the D.C. medical examiner and top officials with the Washington DC VA Medical Center are investigating the discovery of the body of a military veteran in a car outside the medical center in May. The News4 I-Team learned the agency is being questioned for a delay […]
Washington DC May 31 2017 Howard University officials have fired two campus police officers and their supervisor, who were involved with dumping a patient from a wheelchair and leaving her lying on the ground at a bus stop near the hospital. Two of the officers, a man and a woman, were terminated; a third, a […]
BROCKTON MA May 31 2017 – A man who was cleared to leave a city hospital’s emergency room decided he wanted to go to jail – so he went on a tirade in which he took his clothes off and verbally assaulted staff, police said. Four police officers responded to the emergency room at Signature […]
IOWA CITY IA May 26 2017 The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is arming its security guards with the knowledge to help save lives. This week, officers are learning how to identify and stop life-threatening bleeding in emergency situations, situations that they tend to be the first to arrive on scene for. “If something […]