Health care execs: Add workplace violence to mix of issues

FORT COLLINS — As if it wasn’t enough for health care institutions to deal with shifting and diminishing reimbursements for services, shortages of key supplies, spiking costs for construction of new facilities, and critical staff shortages, now they also have to deal with workplace violence.
Not employee-on-employee violence, but patient-on-staff violence serious enough to result in felony charges.
So say Northern Colorado health care executives who gathered this morning for BizWest’s Northern Colorado CEO Roundtable on health care. The roundtable was hosted at the NoCo headquarters for Elevations Credit Union in downtown Fort Collins. In addition to Elevations, the roundtables are sponsored…
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