Part 2 of the Montreal Gazette feature on security at the Montreal General Hospital

Below are excerpts, from part 2 of the Montreal Gazette feature on security at the Montreal General Hospital, for the complete story click HERE to visit the Montreal Gazette

The Montreal General Hospital reports far more violent incidents involving patients and visitors than any other acute-care hospital in Quebec, yet it provides markedly less security than comparable health institutions, a Montreal Gazette investigation has found.

The workplace safety commission (CNESST) investigated the assault on the nurse as well as a patient attendant who came to her defence. The commission concluded that the McGill University Health Centre failed to ensure a safe work environment for the emergency-room staff at the Montreal General, and it ordered the MUHC to make substantial improvements under threat of financial sanctions.

A veteran nurse told the Gazette that a psychiatric patient who escaped the locked ward of the ER last year was later discovered to have lived surreptitiously for six weeks in other parts of the hospital.

Notre-Dame reported 917 such disturbances in 2016, the latest year for which complete figures are available. That number is the second-highest in the city, after the Montreal General’s 1,923.  Notre-Dame, which does not have a trauma centre, provides 1,000 hours a week of security guard coverage compared with about 800 hours of security coverage per week at the Montreal General.
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