Health care facilities fail to provide safe work environment

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Nurses, social workers, aides and other mental health providers are at far greater risk of assault than workers as a whole, an occupational hazard at the best of times and one that's been made worse by a persistent lack of funding for mental health services, the loss of thousands of inpatient psychiatric beds and the increasing use of hospitals to temporarily house criminals with mental illness.

Ignoring the problem, many health care facilities have failed to provide a safe working environment for their employees, workplace violence experts said.