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A patient at Saskatoon\u2019s Royal University Hospital died Friday morning after what the Saskatchewan Health Authority described as a “physical altercation” with hospital security officers.<\/p>\n
In a Friday afternoon news release, the SHA said it is \u201cfully cooperating\u201d with a Saskatoon police investigation into the death.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe SHA takes this incident extremely seriously and we extend our sincere condolences to the patient\u2019s family and loved ones,\u201d the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Security officers were called to a patient room after staff reported \u201ca safety concern involving an admitted patient,\u201d it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the response, a physical altercation occurred between the patient and SHA Protective Services Officers, and the patient became unresponsive. Medical staff responded to provide patient care and pronounced the patient deceased.”<\/p>\n
The SHA said police were \u201cimmediately notified\u201d and it has deemed the death a critical incident, which initiates a legislated process that includes a formal internal review.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
City police said police officers were dispatched shortly after 7 a.m. in response to a report that someone died following \u201can altercation with hospital security.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said the patient was an adult man, but did not immediately give his age.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the SHA did not provide further details about the patient, its statement said it is \u201ccoordinating with the Saskatoon Tribal Council to provide supports to the patient\u2019s family and loved ones.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-400216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}