Minnesota hospitals are reviewing workplace violence plans after an Aitkin County Sheriff’s investigator was killed in the line of duty, at St. Cloud Hospital, according to an article on the CBS Local website.
A patient brought in after an attempted suicide grabbed the officer's service weapon and shot and killed him. The patient was tasered by hospital security officers and eventually died from a likely cardiac arrest.
New legislation called the Workplace Violence Protection Law will take effect January 15, 2016 and requires all hospitals in the state to develop incident response plans with the input of staff and local police.
All hospital personnel, from doctors and nurses to housekeepers will have to undergo annual safety training in how to respond to cases of violence. Hospitals will be required to review their plans annually and track all incidents.
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