Workplace Violence Threatens Urban

Workplace and community violence in American hospitals not only inflicts pain and trauma on healthcare workers. It also drives costs higher for an already stretched hospital system.

A recent research report from the American Hospital Association found the financial costs and other impacts of workplace and community violence in hospitals totaled nearly $20 billion in 2023. This figure was composed of $3.67 billion that hospitals spent prior to events on prevention and $14.65 billion they spent after events on healthcare, work loss, case management, staffing, and infrastructure repair. The report acknowledges, meanwhile, that some of the most significant costs, including potential damage to public perception and to recruiting capabilities, as well as to provider morale in this time of rec