Violence Against Healthcare Workers Increases

Violence against emergency room nurses and other medical professionals appears to be increasing as the number of drug addicts, alcoholics and psychiatric patients show up regularly in emergency rooms across the country, according to a recent survey of industry professionals.
 
The survey, produced this year by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, illustrates that visits to ER’s for drug and alcohol-related incidents rose significantly from 1.6 million in 2005 to nearly 2 million in 2008.

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MountainStar Healthcare Opens Utah ER

DRAPER, Utah — Utah’s only standalone emergency department, the Lone Peak Emergency Center, is now open. The Level III trauma center represents the beginnings of MountainStar Healthcare’s first medical campus to service Draper’s approximately 45,000 residents.
 
MountainStar Healthcare plans to build an 85-bed inpatient hospital on the site in the future.
 
The emergency center is located on the first floor of the recently built Lone Peak Medical Office Building, a three-story, 52,500-square-foot facili

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