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Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo., is implementing a personal panic button system for hundreds of its employees. Assaults of hospital staff tripled from 2019 to 2020, the hospital says.

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A Hospital Gives Its Staff Panic Buttons After Assaults By Patients Triple

6:23pm September 30, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

From 2019 to 2020, assaults on hospital staff by patients tripled at Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo. Now personal panic buttons are being implemented to alert hospital security more easily.

Nurse Katrina Philpot (left) protests against COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates in Santa Fe, N.M., in August.

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In The Fight Against COVID, Health Workers Aren't Immune To Vaccine Misinformation

1:18pm September 18, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

About a quarter of U.S. health care workers have refused the COVID-19 vaccine as of July. They share demographic traits with other unvaccinated people and are putting hospitals in a tough spot.

Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City protest what they say is a staff shortage at several of the network's hospitals in the Bronx and nearby suburbs. During the Nov. 19 demonstration they walked from the hospital to a nearby cemetery.

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Battle-Weary Nurses Wonder If New York Hospitals Can Handle Another Coronavirus Surge

1:25pm December 03, 2020

by Fred Mogul

Compared to last spring, there's more clinical knowledge about how to treat COVID-19, and bigger stockpiles of protective equipment. But nurses worry about staffing shortages as patient numbers grow.