Tulsa Shooting Reveals Weaknesses in U.S. Hospital Safety, Security
Hospitals, like schools, are not typically designed to guard against the threat of active shooters.
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The vulnerability of health care facilities was highlighted by a shooter who killed four people and then himself at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with standard operating procedures meant to aid in the treatment and handling of patients providing easy access for those hellbent on violence, reports the Associated Press. Hospitals, like schools, are not typically designed to guard against the threat of active shooters.
The president and CEO of Saint Francis Health System, which runs the hospital in Tulsa where the recent shooting occurred, said nothing can stop somebody with guns “hellbent on causing harm.” From 2000 to 2011, there were 154 hospital-related shootings, according to a 2017 guide from the International Association of Emergency Medical Services Chiefs that cited the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Nearly 60 percent of those shootings were inside hospitals, and around 40 were outside on hospital grounds, the guide said.
