Violence against health care workers while they’re on the job will now be a first-degree misdemeanor with mandatory jail time in the city of Akron.
Akron City Council passed legislation Monday adding health care workers to its existing menacing ordinance, which outlines penalties for violence against public employees and utility workers.
Assaults and other violence against health care employees have increased across the country in recent years, said Tracy Carter, director of government relations at Summa Health…