Comparing Your Hospital to the 2016 Crime Survey

For comparison purposes, it might be beneficial to compare your hospital’s crime rates to those presented above.  The formula to calculate the crime rate per 100 beds is:

Crime Rate = (x / Beds) * 100

 where x is the total crime for each crime type and
Beds is the number of beds at your hospital
Example:  (17 assaults / 360 beds) = 0.047 * 100 = 4.7 assaults per bed

As mentioned earlier in this report, the use of crime rates provides context and allow for comparisons to other hospitals.  Bed counts were used based on experience from prior crime surveys where additional size and population indicators were collected.  That experience informed the decision to use bed counts as other indicators were more challenging to obtain and not consistently reported via the crime surveys.

 

Workplace Violence Typology

 

For Aggravated Assaults and Assaults, participants were asked to drill down further, if possible, into the FBI’s workplace violence typology:

  1. Workplace Violence Type 1: Violent acts by criminals, who have no other connection with the workplace, but enter to commit robbery or another crime.
  2. Workplace Violence Type 2: Violence directed at employees by customers, clients, patients, students, inmates, or any others for whom an organization provides services. Examples:  patient-on-staff; visitor-on-staff
  3. Workplace Violence Type 3: Violence against coworkers, supervisors, or managers by a present or former employee.
    Examples:  physician-on-nurse; employee-on-employee
  4. Workplace Violence Type 4: Violence committed in the workplace by someone who doesn’t work there, but has a personal relationship with an employee—an abusive spouse or domestic partner.

167 U.S. respondents provided aggravated assault and assault data by workplace violence typology.  As seen in the graphs below, Type 2 aggravated assaults accounted for 83% of all aggravated assaults and 91% of all assaults in U.S. hospitals.  As in prior years, Workplace Violence Type 2 continues to dominate the other types of workplace violence and is increasing.