AHA Releases Guide to Mitigating Violence in Care Settings

Creating Safer Workplaces: A guide to mitigating violence in health care settings is the latest resource developed by the American Hospital Association (AHA) Hospitals Against Violence initiative. Co-produced with the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS), the guide provides health care and security leaders with recommended action steps, case studies, best practices and individual solutions to build a safer workplace. AHA also released a podcast discussing the guide with Laura Castellanos, AHA associate director, AONL President-elect Erik Martin, DNP, RN, chief nursing officer of Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Ky., and Connie Packard, chief of public safety at Boston Medical Center and IAHSS vice president and treasurer. Last week, AHA released a framework to support hospitals’, health systems’ and security leaders’ efforts in implementing violence mitigation strategies.