In addition to statutory changes, the task force also made several recommendations for “best practices” across health care systems, law enforcement agencies and district attorneys’ offices.
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Questions, tension face task force studying violence in health care settings
Friction surfaces between health care professionals and district attorneys’ offices.
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‘Steady stream of resignations’: Health care workers testify about workplace violence
The 13-member legislative task force was told the frequency and severity of abuse is likely the number one reason driving people to leave the profession.
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Panel studying violence in health care settings focuses on lack of resources
Speakers painted a picture of Maine’s behavioral health care system being understaffed.
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Focus should be on fixing system, not punishing patients for hospital violence, mental health advocates say
Mental health advocates say creating alternatives to hospitals for those in crisis — not criminalizing their actions — will reduce violence against health care providers.
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People with mental health challenges say they’re being left out of the conversation about hospital violence
Patients told the Sun Journal that their experience seeking care for a mental health crisis at a hospital emergency department has been uneventful at best and extremely traumatic at worst.
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‘A huge chasm for folks’: Task force studying hospital violence lays out system’s complexities
The group studying the process to bring criminal cases against perpetrators of violence against health care workers held its first meeting this week.
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Hospital workers are expected to ‘tolerate a level of abuse’ unacceptable anywhere else
There is a cultural expectation that health care workers, especially in hospitals, tolerate abusive behavior, making them less likely to want to pursue a criminal case and law enforcement and district attorneys less likely to prosecute, hospital workers told the Sun Journal.
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Hospital workers say they experience assault, threats of violence nearly every day
While the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to a rise in incidents, violence against health care workers was an issue long before it started.
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Legislative task force to look at criminal process for perpetrators of violence against health care workers
The nine-member task force will examine how criminal charges may be brought against people who assault — physically or verbally — workers in health care settings.