{"id":506,"date":"2019-02-27T14:11:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2020-03-02T14:15:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T22:15:33","slug":"890-assaults-against-staff-9-months-1-hospital-thats-intolerable-this-small-step-could-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/2019\/02\/27\/890-assaults-against-staff-9-months-1-hospital-thats-intolerable-this-small-step-could-help\/","title":{"rendered":"890 assaults against staff, 9 months, 1 hospital. That\u2019s intolerable. This small step could help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=1931&amp;Initiative=false&amp;Year=2019\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">House Bill 1931<\/a>, introduced by freshman Rep. Mari Leavitt (D-University Place), would raise standards and increase the frequency of violence-prevention planning, training and record-keeping at all health-care facilities in Washington. It was scheduled for a public hearing Wednesday in the House Appropriations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, along with a companion bill in the Senate (<a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=5912&amp;Chamber=Senate&amp;Year=2019\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 5912<\/a>), recognize the risks that attend the medical profession as a whole. Health-sector workers are at least four times more likely than the average U.S. worker to face serious on-the-job violence,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/Publications\/OSHA3826.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to federal statistics<\/a>; assailants can range from a vengeful gang member outside an emergency room to a distraught family member at a nursing home.<\/p>\n<p>But the bill, while not limited to Western State, was drafted with Washington\u2019s largest psychiatric institution in mind \u2014 and rightly so. The hospital\u2019s safety record and quality of care have received such poor marks from federal regulators that, after three years of monitoring, they yanked its certification last summer, along with $53 million in funding.<\/p>\n<p>Violence-prevention plans are nothing new; they\u2019ve been\u00a0<i>de rigueur<\/i>\u00a0in Washington health-care settings for two decades. Leavitt\u2019s bill would require they be updated every three years with employee input and an annual review of violent encounters, rather than a formulaic one-time plan that doesn\u2019t adapt to changing workplace conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Bill 1931, introduced by freshman Rep. Mari Leavitt (D-University Place), would raise standards and increase the frequency of violence-prevention planning, training and record-keeping at all health-care facilities in Washington. It was scheduled for a public hearing Wednesday in the House Appropriations Committee. The proposal, along with a companion bill in the Senate (SB 5912), &hellip; <a class=\"more\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article226838484.html\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}