Mache attack, disorganized jaw: nurses expanded violent incidents at Fraser Health Hospital

Port Moody, BC In the Eagle Ridge Hospital (ERH), two nurses are speaking about the violent incidents she experienced while working in the Emergency Department – saying that the Fraser Health Authority (FHA) has failed to provide a safe working environment, and demanded the employees to speak.

Veteran nurse Orden Foley says she is not returning to work due to painful stress from an attack by a patient. Victoria Tracy says she was suspended and placed under investigation by Fraser Health when she talked about a patient who threatened her colleagues with a mush.

The Health Authority stated that Tussi, who currently served as a casual FHA employee in the hospital, was not suspended or not kept under investigation.

However, women’s stories include two in two trial On 6 June, the BC was filed against the Health Authority in the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver.

In the trial, emergency physician Cataline Stockton alleged that their jobs were threatened with rights after warning patients about long delays in ER.

It also alleges that the deteriorating work situation in emergency rooms has prevented the deteriorating death, and describes a group of violent incidents against employees.

In an example, a nurse was allegedly strangled by a patient, and after eight weeks of work, a separate attack faced four broken ribs. In the other, a physician allegedly suffered injuries after being attacked by a pit bull in ER.

“These incidents are so common that they are normalized and rarely accepted by FHA management and leadership,” the case accuses.

Fraser Health told CBC News that it does not comment on cases that are in front of the courts.

When CBC News asked about violent incidents, the authority responded with a statement.

“We are deeply concerned about violent incidents at Eagle Ridge Hospital in November 2024 and January 2025 and it affected employees and medical staff,” Authority Said in the statement.

“In March 2025, we recently extended security staff in the emergency department at Eagle Ridge Hospital in a direct response to violent incidents. We also strengthened training for site security and to ensure that employees are fully prepared to respond effectively.”

Speak out after attack

The 37 -year -old Tracy was working on a night innings in the Emergency Department of ERH in January 2025, when a person shouted and threatened to kill the employees. Tracy said that she called security and assisted her associates to vacate patients from the region.

He Then talked to many media outletsSaying that the incident inspired him to be safety and fear for his colleagues and patients. He said that ERH should have only one standard of security as there are large hospitals in the region.

A few days later, Tracy says that she was approached by the Travel Nurse Agency that contrarys her to Fraser Health.

According to the trial, he was told that the Health Authority was asking him not to come for his next scheduled innings as he was being kept under investigation.

trial States “After the FHA, after the FHA, the January 14, 2025 failed to take action or implement the changes, the nurse threatened by the patient was made public to advocate better security measures in ERH. In response, in response, the FHA launched an investigation in the nurse and suspended him during the procedure.”

In a statement, Fraser Health said that “the agency involved has not suspended the nurse, nor has we started investigating their conduct.”

“We believe that it was a painful and distressed event for all those involved and understand that health care workers often face highly challenging situations.”

But Tracy said in an interview with the CBC that he understood that he was being fired.

“I (spent) a whole weekend, my job and my career were threatened,” he said.

“It was extremely disastrous and extremely worrying to speak about safety and my personal experience and not to go back to work.”

Treacy said that because she was a travel nurse under the contract at that time, she never signed the documentation to stop talking to journalists.

“My main message with those interviews asked for help and said that these are things that are actually happening,” she said.

“I never thought that it would probably affect me to ask for help and ask for safety in our workplace.”

The incident is listed in a trial against Fraser Health, “as an example of a psychologically unsafe and toxic workplace, where employees are afraid to speak or advocate for themselves and patients due to the culture of vengeance against those who vengean.”

Jaw’s disorganized, ptsd

Foli has worked as a nurse for 46 years, in a career that took him from the operating room to the emergency ward.

Foli said that she is now speaking because she no longer works in the Health Authority.

She said on November 20, 2024, she was on a shift to ERH when she was badly injured by a patient, who had to face overdose.

Foli said she was in the process of unwaning them with a machine to discharge them, when they suddenly and violently kicked her in the head. Kick’s force allegedly slammed him against a wall.

According to the trial, “the attack left the nurse with a jaw dislocation, a fusion and PTSD. This nurse is not able to return to work.”

Foli filed a claim with the WorksFBC and suppressed the allegations against the patient.

He said, “It took me weeks to think about her and the incident. I was very angry at that time. I did not think that I had done anything wrong and still I was still blaming myself, thinking that perhaps I could separate things,” she said.

“I never experienced attack or violence or aggression that day.”

In a statement, the Health Authority said, “A Fraser Health Manager reached the nurse on 21 November to offer his support and convey the support and resources that are available through the Fraser Health, who have experienced violence in the workplace.”

Foli accessed counseling to help with his post-tramy stress symptoms, but eventually decided not to return to nursing after talking with his colleagues.

He said, “Whatever I talked about, he was telling how the situation deteriorated – the status of work, increased charge, and examples of aggressive, derogatory behavior towards our employees and other patients,” he said.

“Losing my identity as a nurse. This incident has spent me – I have lost my identity with my career, and now it is over.”

The Union of BC Nurses (BCNU) said that the number of violent incidents that forces their members to stop work are increasing. According to the union website, they represent around 50,000 nurses.

BCNU said the number of claims for nursing staff – which included licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, registered psychiatric nurses and nursing coordinators and supervisors – in 2016, it was about 43 per month in 2016 to about 43 per month in 2024.

“None of us were ever expecting that this type of violence would take place in our career. It has increased dramatically because I had become a nurse and unfortunately we need better security measures,” Treads said.

“This is not a world in which I want to live, but unfortunately, these are things with which we are facing.”