THE PRESSURE IS REAL, AND IT'S COMING FROM EVERY DIRECTION
Every hospital in the country is being asked the same question right now.
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CMS ties workplace violence directly to a hospital's Conditions of Participation — the right to receive care in a safe environment, and an all-hazards emergency plan that accounts for it.
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The Joint Commission's current performance goal requires an annual worksite analysis, an incident reporting process, and reporting to the governing body — not a suggestion, a survey item.
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OSHA cited a hospital under the General Duty Clause for failing to protect staff from patient violence — and in February 2026, a federal appeals court upheld that authority.
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State legislatures are moving fast: assessment and reporting mandates are now law or pending in more than a dozen states, and the requirements keep expanding year over year.
None of this asks for a badge. All of it asks for evidence — that you assessed the risk, that you tracked what happened, and that you can show your board you're doing something about it.
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THE PROBLEM
You already know where this goes wrong.
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Most incidents never get logged.
Peer-reviewed research puts formal reporting rates as low as 3–24% — the incident that should shape your next risk assessment simply isn't in the system. -
Healthcare workers face violence at several times the rate of other industries
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A dashboard isn't a worksite analysis.
Most duress systems log that a button was pressed. Almost none produce the report your surveyor, your board, or your risk committee actually asks for. -
Your staff are already wearing three things.
An ID badge, a communication badge, maybe an RTLS tag. The last thing a nurse needs is a fourth device that does one thing and asks for a battery charge. -
A system tied to hospital Wi-Fi is a second point of failure.
An access point outage, a VLAN change, a network refresh — none of those should ever be able to touch a safety system.
THE SOLUTION
One tap. Room-level location. A record that writes itself.
Cora Alert runs on a private LoRaWAN network — separate from your hospital's Wi-Fi, cellular, and IT infrastructure. One discreet tap on a wearable tag sends a silent alert with room-level location, so responders know exactly where to go. No app to open, no phone to unlock, under three seconds.
Every alert is automatically timestamped, located, and summarized — building the incident record your worksite analysis and governing-body reporting already require, without anyone having to write it up after the fact.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
The alert gets someone there. The record is what protects the program.
Every vendor in this category will tell you their button is fast and their location is precise. Fair — that part of the job is table stakes now. What almost none of them do is answer the question your Quality and Risk teams actually ask: can you show me the analysis?
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AI incident summarization turns every alert into a clear, factual account of what happened, in real time — not a reconstruction from memory days later.
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Every event is timestamped and located automatically, building the documentation trail for your annual worksite analysis and incident reporting process.
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Reporting rolls up for your governing body — so leadership sees trends by unit, by shift, by incident type, instead of a pile of individual reports.
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Your own private network, independent of hospital Wi-Fi and IT. No access point outage, VLAN change, or network refresh can ever touch it — safety infrastructure your CIO doesn't have to own or defend.
BUILT FOR WHERE VIOLENCE ACTUALLY HAPPENS
Coverage that matches your risk, not just your campus.
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Emergency Department — the highest-frequency unit for staff-directed violence, and the easiest place for a Wi-Fi-based system to fall behind under load.
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Behavioral Health — private, silent activation matters most where de-escalation is the daily job.
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Labor & Delivery — infant and staff protection on the same private network, without adding a separate system.
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Pharmacy & Med Rooms — door and window sensors verify access control is actually holding, on the same network as staff alerting.
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Parking Structures & Exteriors — coverage doesn't stop at the building line. Loading docks, garages, and lots are covered the same as any hallway.
A FULL CAMPUS SAFETY SYSTEM, NOT JUST A BADGE
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Alert Locator Tags — wearable, IP67 water/shock resistant, ~1-year rechargeable battery. One tap activates a silent alert with room-level location.
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Managed BLE Beacons — installed throughout your campus. 5+ year battery life. Remote battery monitoring via LoRaWAN — the system alerts you before there's ever a dead device. No staff dependency, no surprises.
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LoRaWAN Gateways — private network, up to 1,000 ft range, penetrates complex structures. No Wi-Fi dependency — built for the rural and older-building realities of Michigan campuses.
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Alert Panel — fixed display showing staff location and alert status in real time.
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AI incident summarization — real-time summary of what's happening so responders know the situation before they arrive.
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Facilities sensors (available) — door/window sensors on the same LoRaWAN network verify your locked-door policy is actually working.
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E-911 Integration — optional Intrado integration connects Cora Alert directly to 911/PSAP infrastructure.
"WE ALREADY HAVE A SYSTEM FOR THIS"
"Our nurses already carry a Vocera / communication badge." Those systems open a voice channel — the opposite of what you want in a duress event, where discretion protects the person in danger. Cora Alert adds a single, silent, purpose-built button without replacing the communication tools your staff already rely on.
"We have an RTLS platform." Most RTLS is built for asset tracking, not staff protection, and most staff know it. Cora Alert activates location only when the button is pressed — nothing is tracked passively, which matters both for staff trust and for how you can honestly answer a privacy question.
"Our Wi-Fi coverage is solid." It probably is, for what it was designed for. It wasn't designed to be the one system that can never go down. That's the difference between a communication convenience and a life-safety system.
20 minutes. No sales pressure. Just answers.
We can just talk safety, we can present, and we can live demo the product - you choose the path that works for you. - The Cora Alert Team
