BOSTON, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - Nurses, healthcare workers, and hospital staff Massachusetts celebrated new legislation passed on Wednesday, working to end the growing crisis of violence in the healthcare industry. The new Bill to Protect Healthcare Workers from violence passed in the state house earlier today and is now moving to the senate for approval.

The legislation comes from an unprecedented partnership between hospitals, nurses, and healthcare worker unions, stating that violence against healthcare workers is a growing crisis.

Healthcare workers experience violence far more often than any other workers. Here in Massachusetts, someone in a hospital is assaulted or threatened every 36 minutes. Massachusetts nurses and healthcare workers have reported high rates of being punched, kicked, b

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