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You visit the hospital to be safe from violence, not to encounter it, so what in goodness name is going on?

Yahoo News reports:

More and more violent crimes are occurring in America’s hospitals, clinics and other health care facilities, according to a new alert issued by the Joint Commission, anindependent health care oversight group.

Since 2004, there have been “significant increases in reports of assault, rape and homicide, with the greatest number of reports in the last three years,” the group said in its “Sentinel Event Alert” released last week, the latest in a series of alerts on serious adverse events occurring in health care settings.

According to the Joint Commission’s voluntary reporting system for these adverse events, there have been 256 assaults, rapes or homicides of patients and visitors to American health centers since 1995, with 110 of those acts occurring since 2007. And the report also noted that the actual numbers are believed to be significantly higher.

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