{"id":945968,"date":"2026-10-25T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945968\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:50:10","slug":"2-more-edmonton-hospitals-implement-weapons-detection-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945968\/","title":{"rendered":"2 more Edmonton hospitals implement weapons detection systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Misericordia and Grey Nuns hospitals are the latest health centres in Edmonton to have put weapons detection systems in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Like a lot of big acute centres across the province and country, we have had incidents,&#8221; Adam Carleton, Covenant Health&#8217;s corporate director for protective services, emergency management and parking, said in an interview with CBC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;So this is us taking a proactive step to increase safety in our emergency departments. Our emergency departments are typically where we see most of our activity with regards to the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Covenant Health announced the implementation of the systems at the Misericordia and the Grey Nuns earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Edmonton&#8217;s Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) and University of Alberta Hospital began using such systems earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The RAH implemented weapons screening in May following a stabbing at that hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Covenant Health said the weapons detection systems implemented by the Misericordia Community Hospital and Grey Nuns Community Hospital were procured from Evolv Technology, and are similar to walk-through weapon-screening systems at concert or sports venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a data-ylk=\"slk:survey from the United Nurses of Alberta last year;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.una.ca\/1738\/violence-and-threats-against-nurses-are-not-part-of-the-job\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">survey from the United Nurses of Alberta last year<\/a> found that four in 10 nurses in the province reported experiencing physical violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Patients who refuse to participate in the weapon-screening process but who still require access to emergency care will be assigned Covenant Health protective services oversight while in the department, Carleton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;If you still need access to the hospital, you can access 811 so they can triage your needs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And again, we do have a lockup for any items you might have that are supposed to be brought into a hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;You can also go and lock them up in your car if that&#8217;s available. So we do have workarounds for it. It is a voluntary process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a news release issued Wednesday, Covenant Health said it is moving to a single bag policy for patients and staff in the emergency department and added that more information will be shared when that is implemented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CBC News has contacted Acute Care Alberta to ask for more details about Alberta hospitals&#8217; weapon-screening programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Misericordia and Grey Nuns hospitals are the latest health centres in Edmonton to have put weapons detection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-945968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945968","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=945968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}