Using Mobile Duress Pendants to Protect Hospital Staff
Violent crime in schools or public places might get all the press, but healthcare employees often face violent patients or visitors as part of their day-to-day routine. In Denver, Exempla St. Joseph Hospital installed a mobile duress system to allow healthcare providers in high-risk areas to signal security merely by touching a pendant hanging from their necks.
According to the Denver Business Journal, 45 of the pendants are given to workers in the hospital’s emergency department, intensive care unit and behavioral-health units, and they can use the devices to text pre-set messages to security or to set off a general alarm that help is required.