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Issue 8, May 5, 2006

• Survey finds pay-for-performance gaining traction in healthcare

  Healthcare pay-for-performance (PFP) programs are becoming increasingly popular in the industry...

Issue 50, December 18, 2006

• Security officer charged with mailing threats aimed at boss

  FBI agents in early December arrested a 55-year-old hospital security officer on charges of using...

• Tight security measures may account for high death toll in fire

  Forty-six people died as a result of a December 9 fire at a Moscow hospital-the deadliest fire in...

• Man steals identity to gain medical care

  You've heard of identity theft. But in this case, Maryville, TN police say a man used someone...

Issue 49, December 11, 2006

• State fines California county over health center security

  State regulators fined Contra Costa County $20,805 for failing to provide adequate security at a...

• Man threatens staff with possible gun

  Police arrested a man at City Hospital in Birmingham, England after he threatened staff with what...

• Deer drama at hospital

  A whitetail deer caused a bit of a ruckus at Memorial Hospital of Cardondale (IL) when the animal...

Issue 48, December 4, 2006

• Quebec hospital puts security in place to combat disease

  A Quebec hospital has banned all visitors and stationed security guards at all entrances to the...

• Security officer bitten by man claiming to have AIDS

  A man was arrested on felony charges after biting a security officer who was trying to subdue him...

• Thieves grab disabled parking badges from hospital

  Thieves smashed three car windows and snatched disabled parking badges from cars parked at an...

Issue 47, November 27, 2006

• Fatal shooting at hospital raises security questions

  A 37-year-old hospital pharmacy manager at Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center in Florida died...

• Dallas County prisoner overpowers guard, flees hospital

  A Dallas County sheriff's prisoner escaped from the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas on...

• Anxious families rush to hospital after bus accident

  It was a tense scene at the Huntsville Hospital in Alabama on November 20 following the death of...

Issue 46, November 20, 2006

• Man dons scrubs and steals from hospital

  A man dressed in green scrubs entered Hanover Hospital in Pennsylvania earlier this month...

• Security guard follows hunch that leads to bank robber

  A security guard, who followed her hunch that something just wasn't right, helped police ferret out...

• Violent residents a problem at Iowa nursing homes

  Because of the growing number of assaults on Iowa nursing home staff by residents with...

Issue 45, November 13, 2006

• Des Moines hospital is locked down over fears of gunman

  A Des Moines hospital was locked down for 45 minutes on November 3 after a worried father called...

• Bomb threats test security at two hospitals

  Security plans were recently tested at two hospitals that had to deal with bomb scares.

• Town officials seek legislation to force state hospital to tighten security

  Selectmen in Tewksbury, MA voted November 2 to seek legislation to force Tewksbury Hospital to...

Issue 44, November 6, 2006

• Concerns over safety at NJ hospital

  An attempted shooting by a physician at Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, has...

• Washington hospital hit by data theft

  The personal information of three people was stolen from Swedish Medical Center's Ballard campus in...

• Three teens try to steal hospital barricade

  Three teens were arrested on theft charges at the Porter Valparaiso Hospital Campus in Indiana. The...

Issue 43, October 30, 2006

• Cross-dressing con man allegedly impersonated female nurse

  Police charged an alleged cross-dressing con man suspected of impersonating a female nurse at three...

• Hospital staff members injured in ruckus

  Several staff members at Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs were injured last week in a...

• Customers at hospital's food outlets fleeced for thousands of dollars

  An investigation is underway at the University Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI, into the theft of...

Issue 42, October 23, 2006

• Earthquake forces evacuation of Hawaiian hospital

  The strong earthquake that shook Hawaii early Sunday, Oct. 15, forced the evacuation of hospital...

• Emergency nurses report high instances of workplace violence

  Eighty-six percent of emergency nurses who responded to a recent survey said they have been the...

• Gunman taken into custody at hospital

  A man who police said took a gun into a cauterization lab's waiting area at the Holmes Regional...

Issue 41, October 16, 2006

• Hospital worker dies from trash machine injuries

  A hospital porter died after being trapped in machinery at a hospital in Manchester, England...

• Security guard rescued from smoke-filled elevator

  Firefighters rescued a security guard trapped in a smoke-filled elevator at Claiborne County...

• Injured dog walks itself to hospital emergency room

  Most hospital security departments are used to responding to strange calls. And this one ranks...

Issue 40, September 29, 2006

• Pandemic Lockdown Drill Prep

  When the JCAHO revised its emergency management standard EC.4.20 to triple the requirements for...

Issue 18, May 8, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Woman with knife attacks nurse

  A suspect allegedly assaulted a nurse at Sierra View District Hospital in Porterville, CA, before a...

• Security officer caught red-handed

  Police charged a Selinsgrove (PA) man with burglarizing Sunbury Community Hospital, the Daily Item...

• Security to be revamped prior to Hells Angels rally

  West Park Hospital in Cody, WY, has accelerated plans for a new security system to be installed...

Issue 17, May 1, 2006 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Hospital staff to wear alarms

  The murder of a nurse pressed Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor, ON to purchase personal alarm...

• Gunman shoots windows at Salem birthing center

  A gunman fired bullets into the windows at Salem (OR) Hospital Family Birthing Center in what...

• Officer injured in hospital escape attempt

  A corrections officer was injured after a suspect tried to escape from Jackson Memorial Hospital...

Issue 16, April 24, 2006

• Man escapes sex-offender treatment center

  Michael Dale Benson, convicted of rape and kidnapping in 1989, squeezed through a narrow hole in a...

• Man suffers stroke, issued parking ticket at hospital

  A man admitted to St. Joseph's Health Centre in Sudbury, ON, was issued a parking ticket for...

• Unsupervised outings beneficial and problematic for behavioral health hospitals

  Behavioral health patients who are permitted unsupervised trips to town get a breath of hope, or an...

Issue 15, April 10, 2006

• HIV-positive blood stolen from Vancouver hospital

  St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada experienced a break-in sometime between Saturday and...

• Man dressed in scrubs caught stealing on security tape

  Cameras caught a man from Grand Blanc, MI, stealing personal effects from doctors' coats in the...

• Hospital locked down after report of a gunman

  Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, CT, locked down from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. earlier this...

• Hospital worker fends off sexual assault

  A man attempted to sexually assault a female hospital worker at Scottsdale (AZ) Healthcare Shea...

Issue 14, April 10, 2006

• Security guard gets six months for stealing from kids

  Former Alberta Children's Hospital guard Michael Desjardine received a six-month jail term for...

• High-tech equipment thieves caught

  Authorities in two counties arrested two Decatur (IL) men, who allegedly stole more than $200,000...

Issue 12, March 27, 2006

• Hospital faces investigation into man killed by a taser

  Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute in Fort Pierce, FL, faces a lawsuit after a man...

• Female employees concerned for their safety at CA hospital

  Several female employees say they are concerned for their safety after a couple of recent assaults...

• Police look into claim that hospital is dumping homeless people

  Authorities in Los Angeles are investigating claims that Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Bellflower...

Issue 11, March 20, 2006

• GA hospital boosts security after abduction

  The Medical Center of Central Georgia (MCCG) acted quickly to change its maternity ward security...

• Security issuing warnings to cut down on traffic

  Erie County (NY) Medical Center (ECMC) is targeting people who park their cars for too long in the...

• Sex abuse charges against therapist change policies

  Charges of sexual abuse against a therapist at the Children's Hospital and Health Center in San...

Issue 10, March 13, 2006

• Hospital will require photo ID badges for visitors

  Syracuse University Hospital now has visitors check-in and receive a photo ID badge, reports...

• Security a problem on MA hospital's psych ward

  Tewksbury (MA) Hospital is trying to determine where its security is failing after a recent report...

• NV hospital restructure costs officers jobs

  Washoe Medical Center in Reno, NV, is going through a reorganization of departments that cost 17...

Issue 9, March 6, 2006

• Maintenance worker faces medical equipment theft charges

  A former maintenance worker at Gundersen-Lutheran Health System in La Crosse, WI, is facing charges...

• Police capture infant abductor quickly

  Chicago police arrested a woman who kidnapped a baby from Stroger Hospital less than 30 minutes...

• English hospital system seeks to stop equipment theft

  The United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) is considering using new radio frequency...

Issue 8, February 27, 2006

• Security gets into shoving match with strikers

  Hospital security officers from Stamford (CT) Hospital got involved in a skirmish with several...

• Colorado hospitals making security a priority

  Several hospitals in Colorado are beefing up security to improve customer relations, reports...

• Study: Cellphones don't effect medical equipment

  A recent study published in Anesthesia and Analgesia says cellphones have no effect on medical...

Issue 7, February 20, 2006

• Study looks at forensic security

  A group of prison managers, correctional officers, and Washington County Hospital staff members...

• ND hospital creates special decon room

  St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck, ND, recently became the first hospital in the state to...

• GA hospital reviews security after infant abduction

  The Medical Center of Central Georgia is reviewing its security measures after a 16-year-old girl...

Issue 6, February 13, 2006

• Two shot at Detroit hospital

  Two men were shot last week outside St. John Hospital in Detroit, reports Detroit.com.

• Boston police detain man on infant ward

  Hospital security called the Boston police to arrest a man they say was trespassing on the infant...

• Teen charged with hospital kidnapping

  Macon, GA, police charged a 16-year-old with kidnapping an infant from The Medical Center of...

Issue 5, February 6, 2006

• MN hospital reviews policy after rape

  Officials at the University Medical Center-Fairview Riverside are reviewing security policies after...

• Police search for woman stealing credits dressed as nurse

  Police in Mesa, AZ, are on the lookout for a woman going around dressed as a nurse, who is stealing...

• Prison changes hospital policy

  One week after a prisoner shot a correctional officer and killed him at Washington County Hospital...

Issue 4, January 30, 2006

• Thousands of patient records stolen from Washington hospital

  The FBI and the local sheriff's department are searching for whoever stole more than 360,000...

• Prison guard shot at hospital; inmate flees

  Police caught up to the man who shot a prison guard in the face as he attempted to escape custody...

• Hospital investigating mother's rape accusations

  The University of Minnesota Medical Center Fairview-Riverside campus is investigating a possible...

Issue 3, January 23, 2006

• CA hospital increases security after gun incident

  Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, CA, is installing a metal detector in its emergency room...

• Officer pleads not guilty to hospital beating

  A Chicago police officer pled not guilty last week to charges that he beat a man in a wheelchair at...

• Woman shot in hospital elevator

  Two federal correctional institution employees say they witnessed a Vanceburg, KY, man shoot his...

Issue 2, January 16, 2006

• Hospital employees arrested for ID theft

  Police arrested two employees from Kaiser Permanente's South Bay Medical Center in Los Angeles on...

• Police search for hospital burglar

  Police are looking for a man they believe stole two wallets out of a cabinet in the human resources...

• MN agency says violent hospital crimes are rare

  The Minnesota Health Department recently released a report showing that serious crimes against...

Issue 1, January 9, 2006

• 38 CO medical workers fired for drug theft in 2005

  Metro-area Colorado hospitals fired 38 nurses and other medical professionals for stealing drugs...

• Personal alarm pen aids hospital worker

  A Napa (CA) State Hospital employee used a personal alarm pen to alert security that a patient was...

• Surveillance cameras catch repeat offender at SC hospital

  Surveillance cameras at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston helped security...

Issue 1, April 10, 2006

• Protect your valuable medical equipment

  Every year, hospitals lose millions in stolen equipment. Computers, defibrillators, and other...

• Reducing theft from offices

  The lucrative business of office theft routinely claims countless purses, wallets, office machines...

• Securing a patient’s valuables

  The loss or theft of patient valuables can have a decidely negative effect on the credibility of...