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Concerns over safety at NJ hospital
Healthcare Security Weekly, November 6, 2006
An attempted shooting by a physician at Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, has refocused attention on hospital security, reported the Home News Tribune.
A fourth-year resident at the hospital reportedly tried to fire a handgun at an emergency room security guard, the newspaper said. That report came a month after an 86-year-old patient was sexually assaulted in her room at the hospital, an incident that prompted a review of hospital security throughout the region.
The 29-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist had been on leave from the hospital when she reportedly tried to enter the emergency room with a loaded .25-caliber semi-automatic, according to news reports. She was stopped by a security guard in the vestibule of the emergency room because she did not have identification. Officials said she then took out the handgun, aimed it at the guard, and pulled the trigger several times but the gun jammed.
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