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Task force on health care violence recommends expanding criminal code to protect emergency department staff

Por: Portland Press Herald Health October 14, 2022

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AUGUSTA — At its final meeting Thursday, the task force studying violence in health care settings recommended that the Legislature expand some elements of Maine’s criminal code but by no means suggested an exhaustive overhaul of the criminal process. In testimony to the 13-member task force last month, health care providers told members that the escalating frequency and severity of the physical and verbal abuse they face in the workplace is... + full article



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