Front-line workers at a Missouri hospital are being provided with personal panic buttons after the number of assaults against employees has recently tripled, officials said.
Cox Medical Center staff said they were grateful for the added security measure.
Normally employees carry a radio, which they can use to radio staff who can then contact security, but the panic button"gets security to us faster when staff feels threatened or unsafe in this environment," nurse Whitley Gott told ABC News in a video diary.Nurses Kimber Unruh, left, and Whitley Gott of Cox Medical Center Branson said they are grateful for the panic buttons.
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