2026-08-24 from medicaldaily.com/

Hospital workers are injured on the job by violent acts at seven times the rate of the general working population, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics injury data cited in reporting from NPR and KFF Health News, and the gap has become a bargaining issue on picket lines in at least five states.

The collaboration between the two newsrooms, published this week, centers on a Michigan strike approaching its first anniversary, with patient violence among the stated grievances.

For patients, this is not a labor story happening somewhere else. It describes the conditions inside the emergency departments where they will eventually sit. 

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