SCW NEWSWATCH: "Health care workers have been attacked in parking garages for decades. Why haven't hospitals done more to make them safe?" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 8.19.20

"The COVID-19 pandemic has rallied extraordinary support for health workers .... But the less obvious risk to their well-being — violence at work — has persisted long before the pandemic and has been repeatedly overlooked by hospital administrators, regulators and lawmakers .... The nation's 5.2 million hospital workers are especially vulnerable .... Made up of about 80% women, their shifts begin and end at all hours of the night ... [T]heir employers often require them to park in faraway lots and poorly lit garages. Even as health care companies have taken in billions in revenue, ... some recording record profits, hospitals ... have frequently allowed parking garages to go unstaffed, cameras unmonitored and nurses to fend for themselves, documents and interviews show.. ... "

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Key Words: Health, Health Care, Health Workers, Nurses, Doctors, Hospitals, Safety, Crime, Security, Parking Garages, Attacks

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