In general, are there security checks required to enter hospitals in the US?
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I'm in Sydney, Australia. I had a minor medical emergency this week. I drove myself to the local hospital, parked in the Hospital car park, walked to Emergency arriving aprox 2am. Once i walked in I gave my Medicare card to the triage nurse, and shortly after was treated by a doc. I did not encounter and security checks or security peeps at any stage. What would be the security scenario in a city or regional hospital? Cheers
EloquentBacon@reddit
I’ve seen security at a few hospitals near me. There are 3 local hospitals in my suburban area but for some reasons only one of the 3 has real security. There’s bulletproof glass in the ER to speak to all the nurses when you enter from the street. At the main entrance there is a security desk that keeps tabs on everyone and will deny you entry.
My family was this local hospital to see my parent who was coming out of surgery. The doctor told us to come up to the surgical waiting room at 3 pm. I got in line to check in with security at 2:55 pm. I told that I couldn’t go to the surgical waiting room and they could see that she wasn’t in her room and it would be 30 minutes more so they denied me entry. Another of us got in line 30 minutes later but was also denied entry as she still wasn’t in her room. One of my family member was again denied entry at the time we were told to try again. There were a few other families waiting outside the front door experiencing the exact same issues with them getting denied one by one like us. It got to the point where it was just funny how many of us struck out at the security desk and we all had a good laugh about it. It was frustrating but we all understood the hospital just wanted to keep everyone safe.
My youngest is often inpatient a large, world renowned children’s hospital in Philadelphia. Their security is serious business. All the parents of inpatient children are given plastic badges with their photos on them to be worn in a visible place. There are multiple security check points to show your badge to move around the hospital to the cafeteria and enter the areas where the elevators are to access patient rooms. There’s security at the front door where you have to show ID, identify why you’re there and get a photo ID sticker at the hospital main entrance. The ER is enclosed in bulletproof glass and has a metal detector to enter the ER from inside the hospital.
One time I was hurt in a slip and fall accident in that children’s hospital and was transported to the adult hospital next door. That was a whole other world. I’d compare their security to that of when you’d visit someone in prison as it was more intense than TSA’s security at the airports. My mom in her mid-70’s came to visit me in the ER and was frisked, given a pat down and they searched her purse before the metal detectors.
wireswires@reddit (OP)
Thank you for sharing this details. I used to work as a researcher at HUP, my GF at CHOP back in the 90s. The world was very different back then.
EloquentBacon@reddit
You’re welcome! I am talking about CHOP and HUP. I had a bad fall on an unmarked wet floor when I was with my youngest who was inpatient. They whisked me through an underground tunnel between the 2 hospitals and took me to the ER at HUP. It was wild there coming from suburban NJ and they misdiagnosed my broken kneecap to add insult to injury. I saw a doctor as soon we got home.
WingedSeven@reddit
not required if you need medical attention immediately. usually they'll check who you are just to make sure you legally exist, and that your insurance isn't expired, past that nothin much.
Red_Beard_Rising@reddit
Nice try ISIL.
wireswires@reddit (OP)
ISIL?
Antilia-@reddit
You don't know what that is, or you're confused on why you're being called a terrorist? It's a joke.
wireswires@reddit (OP)
I just couldnt believe that your most important thought as a response to my question is that i am a terrorist?! Have you heared that famous Black Sabbath song?
Red_Beard_Rising@reddit
It was not my most important thought. It was my funniest thought.
wireswires@reddit (OP)
I apologise for not recognising your joke
Antilia-@reddit
And the stereotype of Australians not being able to take a joke continues...
wireswires@reddit (OP)
I apologise that i did not understand that you were joking.
sillysideup@reddit
Been and in 2 hospitals to see other people in the past month or so and yes, they had security checks.
throwawayinmayberry@reddit
Depends solely on the area.
boredherobrine13@reddit
Typically metal detector / bag search if you're able to walk into the ER. Id guess if you're arriving by ambulance you skip that part.
Judgy-Introvert@reddit
Where I live it’s the same experience as yours. No security checks.
zugabdu@reddit
There will be a few police/security personnel in the hospital to deal with unruly or abusive patients and visitors, but otherwise, there really isn't any. Do you have these sorts of security checks to enter a hospital in Australia?
wireswires@reddit (OP)
No. No security in sight at Emergency or main entrance.
zugabdu@reddit
Then why would you think we'd have that here?
wireswires@reddit (OP)
Coz Media portrays US schools as having security and even police in every school - which we dont have. (Your schools also do active shooter drills where we do not). My thesis was that this extra or security and policing may be extrapolated to healthcare.
UnfairHoneydew6690@reddit
Well don’t buy into what the media is selling then.
wireswires@reddit (OP)
What is a school resource officers? I thought they were cops that are based at the school? I have never been to a USA school so as I said - media
drlsoccer08@reddit
Kind of. Most of the time they end up being a glorified lunch monitor. Occasionally they have to do something to prevent a fight. On super rare occasions they may be have to escort a kid to their office if they get caught with weed or something of that nature.
FivebyFive@reddit
They're security guards who hang around in case of trouble.
They're not posted at the entrance checking IDs or doing patdowns.
drlsoccer08@reddit
Schools for the most part don’t really have much extra security. Usually there is one or two “resource officers” and that’s it. Obviously there are a few outlier counties that have medical detectors and clear backpack laws, but those are the exception and not the rule. They get the most media coverage because they are different than the rest.
rawbface@reddit
None of my schools had any security, from Kindergarten through College. In high school there was a school resource officer, but they weren't a security guard.
wireswires@reddit (OP)
What is a resource officer? I thought they were cops?
rawbface@reddit
They are a police officer, but they act as more of a guidance counselor in that role. They weren't standing outside the entrance like a bouncer.
zugabdu@reddit
I get the sense that Australia's media is some of the most anti-American in the democratic world. You people have some of the goofiest ideas about this country.
n00py@reddit
All the Australians I’ve met IRL have been fine but all the ones on the internet hate America more than our actual enemies
boracay302@reddit
What? What media says this?
Antioch666@reddit
Well, with statistics like this
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_233.70.asp
And add these to those
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/a01/violent-deaths-and-shootings
it's kind of easy to get a picture like OPs about US schools. It would be logical.
So probably media that actually report things closer to reality rather than work for the NRA or other organisations with aligned interests.
vwsslr200@reddit
That's not necessarily full time security staff - just schools that have one visit at least once a week. Many schools are assigned an SRO (School Resource Officer) who is just a police officer assigned to that school, which is often more for community outreach purposes anyway, not active guarding.
At any rate, even a full-time SRO is a far cry from the airport-style security checks OP is describing, which aren't common in schools and even less common in hospitals.
Curmudgy@reddit
I don't see where the OP is describing that. But I do see at least one comment from another American commenter who described going through something exactly like that at a US hospital.
vwsslr200@reddit
It's right in the thread title. "Security checks required to enter" - I don't know what else you could conclude from that.
I never said that there are no hospitals in the US with such security checks.
Curmudgy@reddit
Read it more broadly or vaguely. A security check can be anything from just looking at a person before letting them through a locked door to asking for name or ID or something stricter. In any event, the OP was just asking and wasn't describing anything specific. How else would you phrase it to mean the entire range of possibilities without implying a specific one?
Antioch666@reddit
That is true, the 60% is "at least one armed security." Definitely not airport level security. I don't think OP thought of it like that either.
vwsslr200@reddit
Not necessarily. As I said, the 60% includes SROs who stop in once a week and aren't going to be available on premises the vast majority of the time.
"Security checks required to enter" implies airport level to me.
Antioch666@reddit
I have no idea what armed security levels are for Aussie schools, but regardless most likely not even close to US, if any at all. In fact, in most of the developed world, that is probably weird, except for the US.
vwsslr200@reddit
OK... I never said anything about Aussie schools.
Antioch666@reddit
No, but I think OP is from there, so it'll be the biggest point of reference for him/her in a comparison.
vwsslr200@reddit
I doubt there are any schools that have security armed with guns here in the UK, given even most police officers aren't, but there are definitely schools with metal detectors as you walk in here in London, mainly out of concern for knife crime.
boracay302@reddit
Australian crime rate is the same
Antioch666@reddit
Kind of a broad statement, what crime exactly? School shootings? Without checking I'll confidently say, not even close.
boracay302@reddit
Stabbings, acid throwing
Antioch666@reddit
And this has to do with security at schools how?
boracay302@reddit
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/world/australia/mall-stabbings-mass-violence.html
Antioch666@reddit
Again this has to do with school security how?
Here's the overall crime comparison since you seem interested.
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Australia/United-States/Crime
This has still nothing to do with school security.
linds3ybinds3y@reddit
This definitely isn't true. Some schools have them, but plenty don't.
shibby3388@reddit
That thesis ain’t gonna help you win any Nobel Prizes. Respectfully, touch grass.
brieflifetime@reddit
Pretty much every school will have one security guard. These aren't cops mind you. Their high school graduates that were willing to take a minimum paying job. Their job is to make the staff and students feel safe. They will not and should not be expected to do ANY heroics. That's what the cops are for. When they show up. And when they do their job (Texas...).
Very very very few high schools have security check points to enter. It's locked doors. That's all. Most school shooters are one of the attending students so.. it's not like security would be able to tell them apart from other people. We can't afford new books for these kids, we're not paying for metal detectors that will go off for EVERY student. Waste of money and time.
The only security checkpoints I can't think of are at airports and government buildings. Everything else is at most an ID check by a desk clerk, which is usually just to take down the name while you're doing whatever you're doing.
dumbandconcerned@reddit
You literally do. You just don’t see them. It’s not like the TSA. They’re most likely in a break room somewhere waiting to get something on the walkie talkie
therealdrewder@reddit
Is it just me or is this another Australian trying to dunk on how supposedly dangerous America is while being sneaky about it?
wireswires@reddit (OP)
Yeah, thats a popular narrative amongst us Aussies as we dodge the worlds most deadly snakes and spiders that live in our back yards not to mention sharks, deadly octopus, deadly jellyfish and Crocodiles sould we decide to go for a dip to cool off.
DistinctJob7494@reddit
Maybe? I haven't ever been to many hospitals, so I wouldn't really know. However, most that i know of don't like guns inside. So concealed or open carry isn't allowed unless you're police or hospital security. People have to leave their guns in their vehicles or at home to go inside.
Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit
My brother was shot in Cincinnati. The emergency room there has metal detectors and police. Some days they're not really attentive, but that day they insisted that everyone (not just us everyone coming to the ER to get help or visit a patient) show their ID and get their bags checked. Then there were more police outside his room. I think they thought the person might try to shoot him again in the hospital. We saw him a few more times. They continued to check everyone's bags in the waiting room but after a few days, they were satisfied that nobody was going to get my brother while he healed up.
wireswires@reddit (OP)
I think that is appropriate, even valuable given the circumstances
Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit
Yeah I don't fault them at all.
devnullopinions@reddit
The only place I’ve seen any sort of security check was in the maternity ward when my wife was giving birth. We were issued wristbands to be scanned by the nurses to prove we had a valid reason to be there if we left.
49Flyer@reddit
Generally no unless the hospital is in a bad area.
gorobotkillkill@reddit
I'm sure the ER in some areas would have security, but that's just for when something goes sideways. It's likely any trip to an American hospital would have gone just like yours.
Like, I've never been stopped by security anywhere, but of course they won't just let you wander into an operating room.
edithmo@reddit
City hospitals may have a metal detector. Depends on the city profile really.
hankrhoads@reddit
The only area of a hospital I've seen require a security check is the labor and delivery department
yahgmail@reddit
Hospitals in my city have security for walk-ins.
strumthebuilding@reddit
California has a new law, which will be phased in over a couple of years, I believe, that requires all hospitals to have metal detectors and security guards at the main hospital entrances.
rawbface@reddit
That sounds just like going to the hospital in the US. Why on earth do you think we have hospital security checkpoints?
Curmudgy@reddit
Maybe because three or four other American commenters here have reported going through them, at least with bag searches.
No-Coyote914@reddit
I'm sure it varies by hospital, but I've never had to go through a security check.
CRO553R@reddit
I'm sitting in a chair in my wife's hospital room as I'm typing this. We live in a decent, low crime area, and this hospital I'm sitting in is only 5 years old.
The amount of security we had to go through to get into the emergency room last night was like going through TSA at a major airport: empty out pockets, remove any metals (belts, watches, etc), pat down, bag search, metal detectors, wand waving, etc.
Wife is doing ok, btw. Should be able to go home later today.
twowrist@reddit
When I was in the ER in Boston several months ago, there was nothing like that. Just a locked door between the admitting/triage area and the treatment area. They let my husband into the treatment area too.
Redbird9346@reddit
I've had to visit aging grandparents in the hospital recently, and the procedure is essentially as follows:
Routine_Phone_2550@reddit
Depends on the hospital. But there’s tons of locked doors that only employees can open with their badges. Occasionally you see metal detectors.
twowrist@reddit
As it happens, I'm visiting my husband in the hospital right now. (He's on the phone ordering dinner.) The nurses' station has to unlock the door to the ward, but it's largely to make sure that the patient can see visitors. They'll ask you to wait in the waiting area if they're doing some procedure on the patient (like blood tests). It's not security in the sense of guards.
When we first checked in a few days ago (it was a scheduled procedure), there wasn't anything like that. There was just check in at a desk, sit around waiting to be called, then he was escorted to his procedure (which was through a locked corridor). I met up later in his room after the procedure, again needing the nurses station to unlock the door and for the first time, escort me to the room.
JonathanBroxton@reddit
Zero. I was at a major hospital in the greater Los Angeles area last week, saw a couple of different people in different parts of the hospital, walked freely between them, never saw a single security person, and I wasn't stopped or challenged or asked what I was doing or where I was going at any stage.
LoverlyRails@reddit
In my local hospital, you can't get in without going through security (metal detector/empty your pockets). Even in the ER- it's been like this for many years.
I've been extremely sick, still had to go through security. Had an extremely sick child- we both still had to go through security.
Charliegirl121@reddit
University of iowa still has it, and it prevented me from being able to see my daughter in the hospital there. I refuse to use them anymore. They were excessively rude, too.
anneofgraygardens@reddit
I took my mom to the ER twice last year. there was no "security check" or anything like you'd have in the airport, but on one of those occasions there was a security guard at a desk. She didn't pay us any mind, probably because we weren't a security concern.
The only places I've been where you often have a security check upon entering a building are Israel and India. It's pretty uncommon in the US (although I did have to upon going into a courthouse when I got called for jury duty).
Mountain_Man_88@reddit
I've never gone through security to visit the hospital. I have gone through security as a patient. I live in an area where it's pretty common for people to lawfully carry a firearm. My assumption was that they don't want people admitted with firearms with no place to secure them as they go through treatment, potentially falling asleep or losing consciousness, going for MRIs/CT scans, etc. or for anyone to have access to a firearm if they may be going through a psychotic episode or having an adverse reaction to medication.
Different-Produce870@reddit
I've never been to one with a security check, but there's such a diversity of experiences here that if I went to a hospital with one I would not be surprised.
Wielder-of-Sythes@reddit
There’s usually security on sight somewhere but their location will vary but they don’t usually do scans people if make you open your bags or whatever. They often have them in the lobby and they have radios to respond to confrontations or issues in the hospital. When I visited my mom recently Security was at the check in desk they get us directions and the visitor bracelets.
KaBar42@reddit
The last time I was in a hospital, it was because I had to drive my uncle there because my aunt had fallen and split her forehead open.
The only security present was a single security agent armed with just a taser and pepper spray.
At least in my area, generally speaking, no. Hospitals don't have checkpoints.
Maybe the psych-wards. But general areas don't.
virtual_human@reddit
No, no security. So far, no disturbed individual has decided to shoot up a hospital that I know of.
OceanPoet87@reddit
It actually has happened before but not common.
lpbdc@reddit
I think this is an example of two issues: self perception and media distortion.
First: Self Perception. Australia, like the US, has hospital security and school security. That you don't interact with them doesn't mean they don't exist, only that you did nothing to necessitate an interaction. I'm sure that if you had tried to walk into the maternity or psych wards you would have come face to face with someone from security.
Media distortion: All the info you have about the US comes form media. Movies, TV, and some selected News Reports. Movies and TV are fiction, and the news is biased. That bias may not be intentional, but it is there. News is filtered through cultural lenses as well as without context (cultural or otherwise).
Your experience in Sydney is similar to the experience you'd have in NYC, or DC or Dallas, or Iowa City.
jonwilliamsl@reddit
Yes; as a visitor you had to sign in (say who you were visiting) and you got a visitor wristband. When you walked in to become a patient, you also got a wristband. Nobody without a wristband or a staff ID was allowed into the main entrance. As soon as you got to the ER, if you walked in, you would get a wristband (also cops in the ER).
Ananvil@reddit
My hospital has check in desks to get an ID sticker and find out where the person you're visiting is.
They're trivial to avoid.
Except at night, all non children, ICU, and ER areas are open to the public though.
_Smedette_@reddit
The hospital I work at in Melbourne has security, as did the hospital I worked at back home. Neither of them perform “security checks”. They are called upon should the need arise, be a dangerous patient, family member, or just walking you to your car at 2am.
There are areas of the hospital that cannot be access by the general public (labs, pharmacy, food service, staff lockers, the morgue, etc), and other areas that are restricted, but can be accessed with staff permission (eg: exam rooms in emergency, labor and delivery). Access is granted by reception, not security. If someone challenges this (like a family member not allowed in a delivery room), security can be called to escort them out.
ZenNihilism@reddit
This is exactly the set up at every hospital I've worked at in the US as well. We rely heavily on badged access.
Bear_necessities96@reddit
Just for visitors most if you going with a real emergency they are not going to checking you out
Leia1979@reddit
This is my experience, too. If I take one of my parents to the ER, the security person looks at my ID and gives me a visitor badge. In 2022, I also had to show my Covid vaccine record.
smugbox@reddit
Imagine having someone pat you down while you’re having a heart attack or bleeding uncontrollably out your ass
dumbandconcerned@reddit
You have them in Australia as well.
https://crownlandsecurity.com.au/industries/hospital-security/
Southern_Blue@reddit
Here, in VA, for ER, there's nothing. Family members going back there stop briefly by a security desk and and are given a visitors pass.
For the front lobby, you state your business, flash an ID (usually a Driver's license) and are given a pass, usually a name tag that you can stick on your shirt.
Welpe@reddit
It depends mostly on where the Hospital is located. The current hospital I live near does have a security checkpoint right outside the emergency room you need to go through to get in, with one or two people at a simple metal detector and you need to put your stuff in a small plastic container they can see while walking through, sorta like at an airport.
This is the first hospital I have been to that has one so obvious though, most don’t have something similar. And there might be even more security in a poorer area. It mostly exists to stop people bringing any weapons into the hospital.
JeanLucPicard1981@reddit
It depends on the hospital, but yes. My mom is in the ICU and I've been getting my bag searched every day.
TehWildMan_@reddit
I've been in a few that used a metal detector at the patient entrance to the ER, but not for the general building itself
Subvet98@reddit
Some ER have security other than that.
MortimerDongle@reddit
Minimal security yeah. Commonly I've seen those "Evolv" brand scanners where you don't have to take anything out of your pockets, so it's not inconvenient.
barberbabybubbles@reddit
Yes, ours in a major metro city/ “downtown” has metal detectors, bag checks, and then security guards checks your driver’s license and prints a dated photo badge to enter the hospital, including the ER. Other suburban hospitals do still check you in using your license but don’t have metal detectors etc.
Yankee_chef_nen@reddit
The ERs in the Emory University system in Atlanta have security officers but I walked straight past them to the check in/triage desk. Security is there if needed but don’t stop you unless you set off the metal detector as you pass through it. Emory University also has its own police department with sworn officers, who patrol the various campuses including the hospitals where they act as additional security. I imagine that the other hospital systems in Atlanta have similar security in place.
unraveledflyer@reddit
It depends on the hospital and location. I went to the emergency room in what I would consider a safe suburban area, and yes, they did have a guard who searched my purse.
AlienDelarge@reddit
We do now if all city. Metal detectors and guards.
misogoop@reddit
I live in Detroit and I can’t think of a hospital in the city that has metal detectors. Hospital security guards wander around, but I’ve never seen them have to wrangle anyone lol.
AlienDelarge@reddit
Edited my comment a bit to make sense. I'm in Portland, OR and I'm not sure if all the hopsitals have it or just the one downtown. Its a fairly recent development after a shooting at that hospital. Its also not entirely consistent. I had a kid earlier this year and different contents of my pocket were objection to different guards. That includes items that TSA is fine with.
misogoop@reddit
Ah yeah I haven’t heard of any shootings at Detroit hospitals, at least not in the last 20 years, I wouldn’t remember as a kid. Now that I think about it, there is a trauma one hospital in a near suburb ~5 miles from the city line and there’s 2 guards and a metal detector to walk into the emergency room (not if you’re a patient if you’re in immediate need of care), but they’re pretty chill and there’s nothing like that at normal hospital entrances. My mom had a major accident and my dad didn’t have a phone. There was a little bit of a line, but one of them asked why I needed to go in and when I explained, he just had me skip the line and machine to drop it off at the registration desk.
boracay302@reddit
Here in Los Angeles, where crime is higher, no security checks. But cameras everywhere now.
okamzikprosim@reddit
My local ER has those new weapons detectors that don’t alarm when you carry metal through and can also search bags. Seems to be a good compromise between metal detectors and no security.
WritPositWrit@reddit
My experience was just like yours. When we walk in we are immediately in the lobby/waiting room. We present our info at the desk then wait to be seen. No security checks.
Bluemonogi@reddit
I don’t know about the ER portion of my local hospital but I have been in the non emergency area regularly for stuff like the family clinic, laboratory, mammogram, ultrasound, podiatrist, EKG and never saw security. You check in with the reception area but that is it. I’m sure they probably have security but I have not seen it in the areas I have been in.
At the height of covid you had to stop and answer a few questions and get your temperature taken and get a sticker saying you were okay before you entered the rest of the hospital.
notthegoatseguy@reddit
One of the downtown ERs does have a security checkpoint for visitors and walkins. You aren't going through the check point if you're coming in via ambulance. I'm not sure of the others as I've never visited their ERs.
If you're entering the hospital in normal business hours, you just walk through the door.
CupBeEmpty@reddit
That’s how most hospitals in the US work if you are a patient.
They do have hospital security but they aren’t stopping every person that comes in and talks to a triage nurse.
There may be police at hospitals in very bad neighborhoods but not a security checkpoint.
There are special instances where police may have a presence for a specific patient because they were injured while committing a crime. But that is rare.
MillieBirdie@reddit
Last time I visited a hospital there was a security guard at the front who checks your ID and makes you a personalised badge (since only two people are allowed to visit at a time, not sure if that's a covid remnant or just hospital policy for the ICU). Otherwise, no.
_Smedette_@reddit
Nurse here, who has worked in the US and Australia. The hospital I work at now (in Melbourne) does have security, but they are not as obvious or as numerous as the hospitals I worked at back home.
Scrappy_The_Crow@reddit
The only time I've seen locked doors and a security check is at a maternity ward in Dallas, TX when my grandson was born a couple of years ago. I'd either have to be checked against a roster of approved visitors or my son would have to come out and vouch for me.
wireswires@reddit (OP)
Thanks. For context the hospital i attended is about 19km (12miles) from Sydney city.
BankManager69420@reddit
It’s rare. All hospitals have security on site, but not actual checks. I know of only one chain in my region that does, and it stands out in a negative way because of it.
cathedralproject@reddit
I've never seen one. You just walk in and that's that.
SchismZero@reddit
To enter a hospital? No. Why would there be. They aren't going to let you run through employee-only areas, but you're not going to get stopped and checked like TSA to enter the waiting room. That would be mad.
petaline555@reddit
My local hospitals are all like your experience. You'd never know if they had security or not unless you became a problem. Then you'd find out by seeing if the guys who responded were police or security.
Once I went into the children's hospital in the big city. Security at the door, everyone goes through the metal detector and all bags are searched for contraband. It was locked down tight. Each ward was locked and you needed to be buzzed in by a staff member and let back out by one too.
So it's different depending on the location.
Joliet-Jake@reddit
L&D and the mother/baby floor in my local hospital are the most secure wings, to prevent people from trying to steal babies.
The EC has security because people are often violent there and sometimes individuals or groups will try to storm the place to retaliate against someone or finish them off.
PurplishPlatypus@reddit
I've been to ERs that have metal detectors/ security to enter. But the regular parts of the hospital, like the lobby, and visiting patient rooms, was not secured in any way. Anyone can walk in (except the baby/ children floors). I'm not sure what it is about ERs. I guess that things that are happening in an emergency room, like being treated after assault, gun shots, and emotionally charged situations leads to chaotic and aggressive behavior. People wanting revenge.
PineapplePza766@reddit
Only in certain areas the labor and delivery unit at my local hospital is locked and there is heavy security pretty sure this is standard practice these days I live in a small area in a quiet town
Next_Firefighter7605@reddit
That depends on the hospital.
Sarollas@reddit
I've never seen one.