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Focus should be on fixing system, not punishing patients for hospital violence, mental health advocates say

Focus should be on fixing system, not punishing patients for hospital violence, mental health advocates say
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People with mental health challenges say they re being left out of the conversation about hospital violence

Patients told the Sun Journal that their experience seeking care for a mental health crisis at a hospital emergency department has been uneventful at best and extremely traumatic at worst.

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Hospital workers are expected to tolerate a level of abuse unacceptable anywhere else

There is a cultural expectation that health care workers, especially in hospitals, tolerate abusive behavior, making them less likely to want to pursue a criminal case and law enforcement and district attorneys less likely to prosecute, hospital workers told the Sun Journal.

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Legislative task force to look at criminal process for perpetrators of violence against health care workers

Legislative task force to look at criminal process for perpetrators of violence against health care workers
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Governor Mills Signs Legislation Strengthening ALS Research in Maine | Office of Governor Janet T Mills

Governor Janet Mills today held a ceremonial bill signing for LD 2007, legislation that will strengthen research into ALS, a progressive and fatal neuromuscular disease with no known cause, with the hope of eventually finding a way to cure or prevent it.

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