How Hospital Security Guards Manage Code Gray Behavioral Emergencies

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Healthcare facilities are designed to promote healing, but they can also become the setting for unpredictable behavioral emergencies. Patients experiencing mental health crises, severe emotional distress, substance-related episodes, or cognitive impairment may suddenly become aggressive or disruptive, creating risks for everyone nearby. During these situations, commonly referred to as Code Gray events, trained hospital security service […]