House members discussed legislation aimed at protecting healthcare workers from violent patients during a hearing on Wednesday.
The purpose of Wednesday's hearing by the House Education and Labor Committee's Workforce Protections subcommittee was to examine the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act , recently re-introduced by Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.)
Witnesses told of threats and injuries on the job. Some said the incidents ended their careers and shattered their health.
A report in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation revealed the rate of patients ages 35-54 who were hospitalized with heart attacks in the U.S. increased from 27 percent in 1995-1999 to 32 percent between 2010-2014.
Among those, the incidence for women rose from 21 percent to 31 percent, compared to men going up from 30 to 33 percent.
Just as strikingly, women are less likely to receive guidance-based treatment when they suffer these life-threatening incidents because they often don’t fit the profile of a patient in cardiac distress.
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