Hospital staff receive panic button badges after rise in violent patients

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After an increasing number of patients became violent at Cox Medical Center in Missouri staff members were given personal panic buttons. The buttons use a GPS tracking system so security can locate employees when they are in trouble.

 

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We need to label antivaxxers as domestic terrorists at this point

If the folks commenting here are somehow eqating this article with partisanship, that says more about you than the article. Hospitals have ALWAYS been dangerous. A global pandemic is just making them more so. When people are angry and fearful, they can sometimes react badly.

Then Security gaurd's bounce the misbehaving patient's out.

Not something new and neither is violence against Nurses and other medical staff.

How messed up the US has become!

Any patients that. Becomes violent hand them their damn discharge papers END OF STORY. Unbelievable human animals at their worse

So wild animals are now going to the hospital, unbelievable non human behavior

I read a Missouri woman's Facebook posts where she was ranting about being treated like an infected animal when she got caught leaving her room and wandering the hospital hallway. With covid.

Start with harsh penalties for those committing these assaults.

Send their asses out the door!

There is a mental health crisis created by disinformation in this country.

Why the hell would you attack healthcare workers, who are trying to make you well? Why? What?

Have them arrested and cuffed to the bed. Enough already.

You mean the state that elected this insurrectionist is have behavior issues? No way...

GovParsonMO just look at this position YOU HAVE PUT THE DOCTORS AND NURSES IN. Our Missouri governor hosts weekly super spreader events and got Covid himself because he refused to wear a mask. This is no surprise.

This is sad & tragic 💔😢

This kinda sounds like the intro to a zombie movie

And how many of these people are anti vaccination and anti mask? Now they expect hospital staff to bend over backwards to do what they couldn't be bothered to do, take care of them. An ounce of prevention...

It is sad that it has come so far, that medical staff needs a panic button to *protect* them from patients...

Going to the hospital is a choice. Don't go there if you feel your needs will not be met.

Sickening that they need to do this!

The need for healthcare professionals to have these is heartbreaking!💔 I’m turning 75 in a couple of weeks and could never have imagined such things would be happening in our country!🤦‍♀️

By definition, antivaxxers are unstable.

That's a JHC.

Drag their asses out. This is nuts.

Trumpeciles smh

Perfectly normal, perfectly fine

WTF?

Until the whole world get to know how good and generous she's I won't stop saying this cause my life has taken another greatly shape financially, LindaStouffes

I think Covid is creating alot of deranged people

sandranursing Missouri

Treat their pain!!!!!!!! This CDC is out of line. No wonder. Opiate crisis my a**. The entire world went south, no empathy towards anyone any more.

This is a sign of our civil behavior crumbling into chaos

What is happening? What are we becoming?

Just give all the medical staff loaded firearms and impunity to shoot anyone who causes them to be afraid. That's how it works, right?

morgfair Wtf?

veggie64_leslie I’m guessing they’re angry because they think they deserve top priority over everyone else. But go ahead & keep pissing off medical staff. Eventually they’re gonna say 🖕 & won’t nobody be left to care for the sick or injured. We’ll be back to amputating limbs in the “field.”

I know nurses in Arkansas that suffer daily attacks verbally and physically for simply asking that the patients wear masks and for enforcing the policy of no visitors in the exam rooms unless the patient is unable to communicate or is a minor.

Violent antivaxxers and anti maskers should not receive treatment.

Red states are losing their collective minds!

Why take care of an aggressive being? Just let them die!! 🤣😂

Dystopia

Screw the alarms...give them bear mace No wait...angels won't resort to such levels Screw it...

RF71901898 I bet they are mostly unvaccinated COVIDIOTS who are attacking hospital staff. Hospitals need to require all adults to provide proof of vaccination before entering the facility. ToughLoveTime ✌️😷💉

morgfair Proud to work for an institution that cares for its employees. The hospital also spared no expense to get its staff PPE during the COVID pandemic.

Reaction to horse wormer?

Unbelievable! This must stop.

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