Man Fires Flare Gun, Threatens to Shoot Up O.C. Medical Center
The 51-year-old suspect was subdued by an ER doctor and nurse at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center before police arrived.
The 51-year-old suspect was subdued by an ER doctor and nurse at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center before police arrived.
Rice University is located directly adjacent to the Texas Medical Center, which is the largest medical complex in the world.
The FBI had been surveilling the 36-year-old man who expressed racial and religious hatred and anti-government sentiment.
Many U.S. colleges and universities are prepping empty dorms and other large facilities to house both coronavirus patients and healthcare workers.
Data from the Harvard Global Health Institute estimates a fifth of adults who are infected with the virus will need to be hospitalized.
Experts say the spreading of the coronavirus has also shown many hospitals are not prepared to handle a public health crisis.
The sitter said he put his hand on the foot of the patient’s bed to reach for his cell phone he had dropped when she became startled.
Nurses are demanding officials reexamine security policies after the patient, who is a convicted felon and well-known to staff, was placed on an open unit.
The 16-year-old’s mother was taking him to the healthcare facility to receive mental health treatment when multiple violent confrontations occurred.
After hospital security was able to disarm the man, he lunged at responding officers with a knife and was shot and killed.
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