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Ballad Health to install weapons detectors at all hospitals
Ballad Health will begin using weapons detection systems at all its hospitals on Nov.
11.
The health system is based in Johnson City, Tennessee.
It says the move responds to a rise in workplace violence.
Detectors will be installed at designated entrances to inpatient facilities.
They are designed to detect guns and knives before they enter patient care areas.
The systems are due to start operating at all Ballad Health hospitals on Nov.
11.
Ballad Health will begin using weapons detection systems at all of its hospitals on Nov. 11.
The health system cited a rise in workplace violence.
The systems will be installed at designated entrances to inpatient facilities.
They are designed to detect guns and knives before they enter patient care areas.
Ballad Health is based in Johnson City, Tenn.
- Who
- Ballad Health.
- What
- It will begin using weapons detection systems at all its hospitals.
- When
- Nov. 11. The announcement was published Nov. 10.
- Where
- At designated entrances to Ballad Health inpatient facilities.
- Why
- Ballad Health cited a rise in workplace violence.
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Becker's Hospital Review published the announcement that Ballad Health would launch weapons detection at its hospitals.
Ballad Health is scheduled to begin using the systems at all of its hospitals.
- Health system
- Ballad Health
- Start date
- Nov. 11
- Number of hospitals
- All of Ballad Health's hospitals
- Installation locations
- Designated entrances to inpatient facilities
- Weapons detected
- Guns and knives