{"id":839012,"date":"2026-07-31T21:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839012\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:42:13","slug":"more-hospitals-added-to-sha-security-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839012\/","title":{"rendered":"More hospitals added to SHA security plan\u00a0 \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ed9ae371-2e99-49c2-94fd-3adfd4f1174e.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: Susan McNeil\/paNOW Staff)<\/p>\n<p>By Susan McNeil<\/p>\n<p>Safety<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 31, 2026 | 12:03 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Contracted security officers will soon be added to more hospitals in Saskatchewan, including sites in Melfort, Nipawin, and La Loche.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Saskatchewan Health Authority said contracted protective services that were tested in Prince Albert, North Battleford, and Lloydminster last year are being made permanent and expanded to five more communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safety of Saskatchewan Health Authority patients and their families, employees, physicians, volunteers, and our communities is our top priority,\u201d Rod MacKenzie, executive director of provincial clinical and support services-community care for the SHA, said in a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The SHA said the enhanced service is meant to improve the response to violence in health facilities through prevention, de-escalation, and a physical response when needed to support care teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: Susan McNeil\/paNOW Staff) By Susan McNeil Safety Jul 31, 2026 | 12:03 PM Contracted security officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-839012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839012","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=839012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}