Kanani Fong has some concerns about security at the hospital and over all at medical facilities. Details are coming out that are extraordinarily disturbing. The event was scarier and more intense than it first appeared. Needless to say, the hero of the day was Major Sabon Shelton, who has been recommended for a medal for saving many lives. Read the story here by Chris Wasson in the Selma Times-Journal. Do MPs and increased security measures need to be implemented at hospitals? Does Medcom need to read the Joint Commission Report on Preventing Violence In the Health Care Setting issued on June 3, 2010? You'd better believe it. They should also read the International Association for Healthcare Security article issued on 18 August 2010:"The total number of crimes reported by 212 healthcare facilities in the 10 categories of crime for 2009 was 14,986 (70.7 per hospital) compared to the 7,764 crimes (40.4 per hospital) reported in 2004 by 192 facilities. On a per hospital basis, this represents a 75% increase over the five-year period, returning to the crime levels reported between 1995 and 1998. An 11th category, kidnapping, was not reported in 2004. Five incidents in this category were reported in 2009." Should Navy Medicine and the VA take these stats seriously too? You bet. Looking through this list, I wonder how many other hospitals in both the civilian and military settings have fallen into this trap of failure (found in the Joint Commission report):
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