Hospitals must join fight against domestic violence
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Fifteen years ago, our nation was shocked by Marc Lepine&#39;s rage against women. Today, the anniversary of the day he shot and killed 14 female engineering students in Montreal, Canadians pause to reflect on the tragedy of violence against women.
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A group of health care leaders said on Tuesday they were banding together to make U.S. hospitals less dangerous places to get well.
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The Sept. 26 slaying of Thomas Mullen and the arrest of his roommate John Tamkun, a retired cabinetmaker who suffers from dementia, have cast a spotlight on a growing problem at nursing homes across the country: violence among residents.
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The Service Employees International Union will step up its Boston hospital organizing efforts today when members are expected to hand out leaflets in the Longwood Medical Area. SEIU has been working to organize employees in Boston's largely nonunion teaching hospitals for nearly two years. An organizing rally is set for Oct. 16. Union officials said they want hospital executives to ...
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Imagine making an emergency call not for help getting to the hospital but after you've already arrived there. That's what Ray Clement and his wife did last year at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Shadyside Hospital, where he had gone with a suspected blood clot. When Clement thought...
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The government is launching a proactive fight to tackle MRSA and other hospital infections.
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Patients who are violent to NHS staff should be made to pay for their treatment, under Lib Dem proposals.
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The government is launching a proactive fight for hospitals to tackle MRSA and other infections.
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WASHINGTON - Citing statistics that one in 10 hospital patients worldwide are victims of preventable medical mistakes, the World Health Organization on Wednesday launched an initiative to create a âculture of safetyâ in health care.
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A union is trying to force nonprofit groups like hospitals to comply with standards of governing similar to those that federal law requires of private companies.
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LOBBYIST Dr Glenda Simms is urging sexually abused women in the upper echelons of society to speak out more about their experiences as victims of violence, as a means of empowering their less affluent counterparts to do likewise.
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AUSTRALIA is to join a new World Health Organisation initiative to create a &quot;culture of safety&quot; in health care amid concerns that one in 10 hospital patients are victims of preventable medical mistakes.
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Scotland's nurses need better protection from violence and aggression, it has been warned.
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Employers are learning that victims of violence are often reluctant to seek help.
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Facing cutthroat competition, escalating expenses, and declining revenues, some of the region&#39;s hospitals are trying to boost their bottom lines by offering
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Women are more likely to suffer physical and sexual violence from their husbands or partners than other people and the violence is more severe in rural areas, according to research being published on Friday.
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Doctors' leaders warned of an 'unspoken epidemic' of domestic abuse today, which they described as ultimately unquantifiable because some victims were not believed while others did not realise the abuse they suffered was a crime.