A Hospital Gives Its Staff Panic Buttons After Assaults By Patients Triple

Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo., is implementing a personal panic button system for hundreds of its employees. Assaults of hospital staff tripled from 2019 to 2020, the hospital says.

From 2019 to 2020, assaults on hospital staff by patients tripled at Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo. Now personal panic buttons are being implemented to alert hospital security more easily.

(Image credit: Brandei Clifton/Cox Medical Center)

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Deepa Shivaram