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Hospital murder-suicide raises security questions
Healthcare Security Weekly, October 15, 2004
A Utah hospital staff will review security following the murder-suicide of a married couple last week, the Salt Lake City Tribune reports.
Kimball Jencks reportedly walked into his wife Beata's room at Cottonwood Hospital in Murray, shot her, and then turned the gun on himself. Police haven't released a motive for the shooting, but reports show that Beata received care on an acute medical floor at the hospital.
Intermountain Health Care, which owns Cottonwood Hospital, will conduct a security review in the wake of the incident, IHC spokesman Jess Gomez told the Salt Lake City Tribune. But "it doesn't appear that security really had an issue in the situation, or could have prevented this," he says.
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