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Sen. Tammy Baldwin introduces legislation aiming to protect healthcare workers
from attack





SEN. TAMMY BALDWIN INTRODUCES LEGISLATION AIMING TO PROTECT HEALTHCARE WORKERS
FROM ATTACK

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Daphne Chen   Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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'I’m a nurse. This isn’t what I do.'
ER nurse Jesse Telford recounts the day of a chaotic attack at a hospital.
Bill Schulz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


After years of growing violence against nurses and stalled attempts to address
the issue in Congress, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) introduced a new
bipartisan bill this week that aims to protect healthcare workers from attacks
at the workplace.



The issue has long concerned healthcare and social services employees, who say
they are increasingly running understaffed and underpaid, putting both patients
and themselves at risk. Healthcare workers were four times more likely to be
seriously injured than workers in any other industry, according to the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Journal Sentinel has been investigating violence against hospital workers
since the fatal attack on nurse Carlie Beaudin in a dimly lit Froedtert Hospital
parking garage in 2019. The newspaper's reporting detailed how cash-rich
hospitals have done little to prevent violence against staff under weak OSHA
protections.

Baldwin's proposed legislation would require OSHA to mandate that healthcare and
social services employers implement a workplace violence prevention plan. The
plan must include an assessment of the facility's level of security and staffing
and would require that employers log violent incidents and investigate them as
soon as possible.




The new federal standard would cover many types of facilities, including
hospitals, Veterans Affairs healthcare facilities and home-based hospice work.
It is not intended to cover the offices of individual physicians or other
medical providers.

Currently, just eight states require employers to have workplace violence
prevention plans. Wisconsin is not among them.

Previous legislative attempts to protect healthcare workers stalled after being
opposed by the American Hospital Association and other hospital lobbies. A
similar bill reintroduced by Baldwin last year passed in the House but not in
the Senate.

The bipartisan legislation is sponsored by Baldwin and Rep. Joe Courtney
(D-Conn.) with support from three Republican representatives. The bill does not
currently have any Republican co-sponsors in the Senate.



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