Final Reading: Health care workers still face threats and attacks in Vermont’s hospitals, advocates say

An entrance to the emergency department at the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerOver the past few years, hospital emergency rooms — in Vermont and beyond — have seen an increasingly disturbing condition: an “epidemic of violence,” as Liz Couto, an emergency department nurse and chair of the Vermont Emergency Nurses Association’s government affairs committee, put it Wednesday. Across the U