May 7, 2025- According to Premier, over 40 percent of healthcare workers have experienced violence on the job, and it is fueling the healthcare workforce shortage crisis. To recruit and retain the clinicians we urgently need, their safety must be a national priority, and Premier applauds Sens. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) and Angus King (I-ME) and Reps. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) for their bipartisan commitment to ensuring the safety of frontline healthcare professionals.
According to Premier, The Save Healthcare Workers Act (S. 1600/H.R. 3178) is commonsense legislation that is critical to protecting the heartbeat of healthcare – its employees – by making it a federal crime to knowingly assault healthcare workers on hospital grounds.