BOSTON — Cari Medina, Executive Vice President of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, which represents over 85,000 healthcare workers throughout Massachusetts, issued the following statement in response to reports of the stabbing of a Boston Medical Center public safety officer the morning of December 10, 2025: 

"The nearly 5,000 healthcare workers at Boston Medical Center are alarmed by this violent incident, and hoping for the safe recovery of the public safety officer who was stabbed today. Our members who sit on Boston Medical Center’s labor-management safety committee will be meeting to discuss additional steps that Boston Medical Center can take to keep employees and patients safe. 

“This incident represents an unfortunate and unnecessary reality for healthcare workers in hospitals and healthcare facilities all across Massachusetts. Far too often, healthcare workers are the victims of violent attacks in the workplace, and we need our healthcare institutions and our state leaders alike to do more to protect the frontline workers who keep our healthcare system running. 

“We are grateful to the House of Representatives for passing An Act Requiring Health Care Employers to Develop and Implement Programs to Prevent Workplace Violence (H.4767/S.1718) last month that we developed in partnership with the Massachusetts Nurses Association and the Massachusetts Health & Hospital  Association. We urge the State Senate to act quickly to pass this critical legislation.”