#59: Why are Vancouver's Hospitals Getting More Violent?

Summary: This week Cited partners with Travis Lupick, reporter and editor with The Georgia Straight, to uncover a worrying trend in Vancouver’s health care system. Since 2010, rates of violence and aggression have steadily increased in the city’s two largest hospitals. The question is why? <p>Statistics obtained by The Georgia Straight with freedom of information requests indicate rates of violence and aggression at St. Paul’s Hospital (SPH) and Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) have been rising steadily in recent years. To see the raw data, click <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WK1agX9l8RjljLBtY-gDMWMc8NO3dB74">here</a>.</p> <p>Read Travis’s story in The Georgia Straight, <a href="https://www.straight.com/news/993776/rising-violence-against-staff-vancouver-hospitals-leaves-stakeholders-searching">“Rising violence against staff in Vancouver hospitals leaves stakeholders searching for explanations”</a>.</p>