Mary Beth Kingston
Articles
Hospitals Against Violence, Workplace Violence, Community Violence, Leadership
New violence mitigation framework built to establish safer workplaces, communities
Workplace violence spurred AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence advisory group to create a framework to support hospitals’, health systems’ and security leaders’ efforts to safeguard staff and patients, writes Mary Beth Kingston, R.N., chair of the group, chief nurse officer at Advocate Aurora Health and AHA Board member. Read how this new framework employs the four critical pillars necessary for implementing comprehensive violence mitigation strategies: trauma support, a culture of safety, violence intervention and risk mitigation.
Hospitals Against Violence
Blog: Join hospitals, health systems in supporting #HAVhope June 4
Our hospitals and health systems are not immune to violence, but they have made great efforts to curb it, writes Mary Beth Kingston, R.N., chief nurse officer at Advocate Aurora Health in Milwaukee, Wis., and Downers Grove, Ill., AHA Board member and AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence advisory group chair. In this blog (LINK), Kingston talks about how her system combats violence and encourages others to share their stories for tomorrow’s #HAVhope Friday.