Nearly two-thirds of the aggravated assaults reported on the University of Iowa campus in 2020 happened at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Mark Bullock is co-director of the university’s public safety department.

Bullock made his comments while briefing the Iowa Board of Regents on the most recent report on-campus crime, which covers the calendar year 2020. Stats for THIS year are not yet available. A hospital in Branson, Missouri, recently provided up to 400 staff members with panic buttons on their employee badges after violent attacks against health care workers there tripled in the past year.