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February 26, 2026

Building Comprehensive Workplace Violence Programs in Children's Hospitals

For nursing leaders in pediatric settings, this presents a distinct challenge: ensuring staff safety while maintaining the family-centered care central to children's healthcare.

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For nursing leaders in pediatric settings, this presents a distinct challenge: ensuring staff safety while maintaining the family-centered care central to children's healthcare.

Workplace violence in healthcare does not usually explode in a single, isolated moment. Instead, it grows quietly in environments where threats, harassment, or physical assaults go unreported, unaddressed, or worst of all, normalized.

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March 19, 2026

When Healthcare Staff Don’t Report, Violence Wins, and Silence Kills

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March 12, 2026

The Invisible Crisis: New Canopy Report Reveals Heavy Toll of Healthcare Workplace Violence

For nursing leaders in pediatric settings, this presents a distinct challenge: ensuring staff safety while maintaining the family-centered care central to children's healthcare.

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February 26, 2026

Building Comprehensive Workplace Violence Programs in Children's Hospitals

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February 23, 2026

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Healthcare workplace violence is often framed purely as a safety issue. However, its real cost extends far beyond the moment a Canopy duress button is double-pressed. For healthcare organizations, a single incident triggers a cascade of consequences that are rarely fully accounted for.

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February 19, 2026

Beyond the Incident: Calculating the True Cost of Workplace Violence in Healthcare

In the high-stakes environment of healthcare, we often define success by the absence of an incident report.

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February 12, 2026

The Anatomy of a Near Miss in Healthcare

The modern healthcare system runs on data, but its foundation, the location services infrastructure, often feels stuck in the past.

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January 13, 2026

Strengthen Safety: Why Canopy’s LocationID Network is the Simplest Path to a Modern IoT Edge

Industry Veterans and Luminaries Join Round as Canopy Solidifies Position as the Healthcare Standard for Staff Safety and Location Intelligence

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January 8, 2026

Canopy Secures $22M Series B to Define the Standard for Connected Safety and Location Intelligence

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December 16, 2025

The Future of Safety: Data with Heart

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December 9, 2025

From Reactive to Proactive: The Canopy Fall 2025 Product Release is Here

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December 2, 2025

‍A Connected Safety Story: Building a Culture of Protection at University of Michigan Health Sparrow

Connecting Tech to Care with Canopy's Deployment Lead, Justin Kesto

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November 18, 2025

Canopy Employee Spotlight: Justin Kesto

When Violence Echoes: The True Cost of Silence in Healthcare

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November 14, 2025

When Violence Echoes: The True Cost of Silence in Healthcare

The Critical Role of Workplace Safety in Nurse Empowerment and the Patient Experience ‍By Jeanne J. Venella DNP, MS, CEN, CPEN

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November 6, 2025

The Critical Role of Workplace Safety in Nurse Empowerment and the Patient Experience

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November 4, 2025

Building a Brighter Day: How Safety Tech is Healing Healthcare Burnout

Maslow Meets the Emergency Department: Why Caregiver Safety is the Prerequisite for Healing ‍By Jeanne J. Venella DNP, MS, CEN, CPEN

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October 28, 2025

Maslow Meets the Emergency Department: Why Caregiver Safety is the Prerequisite for Healing

Canopy Employee Spotlight: Renae Smith

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October 24, 2025

Canopy Employee Spotlight: Renae Smith

Jason Fass, Canopy’s VP of Marketing, spoke with Authority Magazine on a critical discussion on minimizing medical burnout.

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October 22, 2025

Beyond the Pizza Party: Canopy’s Jason Fass on How to Minimize Medical Burnout.

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October 8, 2025

Canopy Works: The Safety Imperative, How Wearables Are Transforming Workplace Security at UMH Regional Health

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July 10, 2025

Canopy and Commure Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Staff Safety in Healthcare

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June 4, 2025

Help Healthcare Workers Recover from Burnout

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May 30, 2025

4 Ways to Keep Home Healthcare Workers Safe

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May 30, 2025

Are Hospital Security Systems Really Protecting Healthcare Workers?

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April 29, 2025

Enhancing Healthcare Worker Safety: A Comprehensive Guide to Hospital Safety Measures

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April 25, 2025

How to Recognize the Warning Signs of Behavioral Escalations

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April 22, 2025

The Hidden Cost of Workplace Violence

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April 17, 2025

5 De-escalation Techniques for Those in Health Systems

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March 17, 2025

Trauma-Informed Care: Preventing Workplace Violence through De-escalation

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January 8, 2025

Protecting Healthcare Workers Starts with Doing the Right Thing

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November 15, 2024

Shan Sinha talks with David E. Williams of HealthBiz

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October 17, 2024

Staff Safety is Key to Sustaining Home Health Growth

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October 16, 2024

Rama On Healthcare talks with Shan Sinha, CEO and Founder of Canopy

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October 10, 2024

Canopy Recognized as a Technology Making An Important Positive Social Impact

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October 9, 2024

‘Like Another Layer of PPE’: Wearable Safety Technology is the Way of the Future

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October 9, 2024

In Emergencies, Second Matters: Canopy Can Help End Violence Against Healthcare Workers

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September 25, 2024

Canopy launches “Under the Canopy,” a video series featuring Shan Sinha, Canopy’s CEO, in conversation with health system leaders

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September 20, 2024

Shan Sinha discusses Canopy with Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

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July 8, 2024

Under the Canopy: A Conversation with Shan Sinha and Bharat Sundaram

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June 18, 2024

Canopy expands real-time wearable safety from hospitals to home health

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February 13, 2024

New data shows aggression and violence are issues for all hospital staff - 60% of reported threats happen outside the emergency department

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February 13, 2024

Canopy Data Report: Shedding light on violence against hospital staff in 2023

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December 12, 2023

News: Shan Sinha, Canopy CEO: A Fortt Knox Update

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December 6, 2023

News: Healthcare Worker Safety Startup Canopy Brings 'Personal Panic Button' Out From White-Label Stealth

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December 6, 2023

Canopy, Creator of Leading Staff Safety Solution Already Protecting 200,000 U.S. Healthcare Workers, Exits Four Years of Stealth

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December 6, 2023

MedCity News: Canopy Emerges from Stealth Selling ‘a Wearable Panic Button’ for Healthcare Workers