A suspect charged with robbing a bank was shot by an officer at Ocala (Fla.) Regional Medical Center Thursday after threatening a hospital staff member and an officer with scissors. The suspect was receiving treatment at the hospital at the…
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A male patient was returned to Lincoln (Neb.) Regional Center Saturday after escaping from the 250-bed state psychiatric hospital for five hours, reports Lincoln Journal Star.
A woman serving as the director of nursing services at Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation Center in Columbus, Ind., was arrested Thursday for posing as a registered nurse, according to a CBS4 report.
A security guard at Lynchburg (Va.) General Hospital shot a patient Monday after an altercation, according to the Lynchburg Police Department.
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Police are investigating a Jan. 11 stabbing of a security guard at Hartsville, S.C.-based Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, according to WBTW.com.
Police have arrested a man for assaulting a police officer at Philadelphia-based Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Jan. 9, according to PhillyVoice.com.
According to the CDC, an estimated 30,100 central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) occur in intensive care units and wards of U.S. acute care facilities each year.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America has published updated guidelines in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases on treating candidiasis, a serious, life-threatening fungal infection.
In Minnesota, an Aitkin County Sherriff's Investigator was shot and killed by a patient he was guarding at St. Cloud (Minn.) Hospital on Sunday morning, according to a KSTP report.