SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Cox South is introducing a new way to keep staff safe: panic buttons. These buttons are intended to help with safety in high risk areas, like the emergency room. Staff wear the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (CNN) — A Missouri hospital is testing out a wearable panic button for workers to press in violent situations. It’s in a trial phase and is aimed at improving security … ...

Cox Medical Center in Branson, Missouri, will begin issuing "personal panic buttons" to health care workers to help combat the steep increase in violence against staff members over the past year ...

The number of assaults against the hospital's employees has recently tripled. Front-line workers at a Missouri hospital are being provided with personal panic buttons after the number of assaults ...

From 2019 to 2020, assaults on hospital staff by patients tripled at Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo. Now personal panic buttons are being implemented to alert hospital security more easily.

From 2019 to 2020, assaults on hospital staff by patients tripled at Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo. Now personal panic buttons are being implemented to alert hospital security more easily.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Cox South is introducing a new way to keep staff safe: panic buttons. These buttons are intended to help with safety in high risk areas, like the emergency room. Staff wear… ...

BRANSON, Missouri -- Frontline workers at a Missouri hospital are being provided with personal panic buttons after the number of assaults against employees has recently tripled, officials said ...