Violence against healthcare workers is on the rise as seen by an attack at a Pennsylvania hospital. A gunman took hostages before exchanges of gunfire that killed a police officer and wounded five other people at a York County,

Staff and wire report  A  shooting this weekend at a York hospital that killed a police officer and wounded five others coupled with three separate attacks in Scranton hospitals within the past

A man who took hostages in a Pennsylvania hospital during a fatal shooting highlights the rising violence against U.S. healthcare workers and the challenge of protecting them.

A man who took hostages at UPMC hospital during a shooting that killed a police officer and wounded five others highlights the rising violence against U.S. healthcare workers.

The man who authorities say entered a Pennsylvania hospital with zip ties and a pistol over the weekend had recent contact with the hospital's intensive care unit, where he took staff members hostage and was killed in a shootout that left a police officer dead and others injured.

A gunman, armed with a handgun and carrying zip ties, went inside UPMC's ICU, and took staffers hostage before he was ultimately killed by police in a shootout, the York County DA said.