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ROAR Announces Leadership Transition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 8, 2026 | Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, PA — ROAR for Good (ROAR) today announced that Sami Asikainen has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. Co-founder Yasmine Mustafa transitions to President & Founder, effective immediately. ROAR protects over 7 million frontline and at-risk workers across more than hundreds of facilities in enterprise healthcare, hospitality, and education, and has a vision to…
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Behavioral Health Workplace Violence and Union Concerns: 10 Questions Healthcare Leaders Are Asking
Behavioral health workplace violence is the fastest-growing driver of union organizing in healthcare. These FAQs answer the most common questions leaders ask about the connection between safety investment, union concerns, and workforce stability. Whether you are a CHRO preparing for bargaining, a CNO advocating for staff, or a CEO presenting to your board, these answers…
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Behavioral Health Workplace Violence HR Brief: Safety Investment for Labor Relations
Key Takeaways CHROs who already see the link between behavioral health workplace violence and union grievance activity face a specific internal challenge: getting the CEO and CFO past the habit of treating safety and labor relations as separate budget conversations. This brief gives you the arguments, data framing, and objection responses to walk into that…
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CHRO Workplace Violence Peer Benchmarks: Where the Field Is Moving
Key Takeaways The question behavioral health CHROs keep asking each other is simple: what are other organizations actually doing about workplace violence and union safety pressure? Not what they’re planning. Not what they’re evaluating. What they’ve done, and what happened after. The answer is splitting the field. Some peer organizations have already invested and are…
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How to Position Workplace Violence Investment in Labor Relations
Key Takeaways Most CHROs in behavioral health know safety investment matters for labor relations. The problem isn’t conviction. It’s that there’s no repeatable process for turning that conviction into a narrative that gets the CFO to approve the budget and gets the union to see it as a collaborative commitment rather than a reactive concession.…
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Healthcare Union Safety Negotiations: The CHRO Confidence Shift
Key Takeaways Every CHRO in behavioral health knows the moment. Union representatives sit down across the table with a stack of incident data, staff surveys, and grievance filings. The numbers are accurate. The stories are real. And the question hanging over the room is one you’ve been asking yourself for months: have we done enough?…
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Behavioral Health Workplace Violence: Why Unions Organize Around Safety First
Key Takeaways Union organizing campaigns in behavioral health don’t lead with wages anymore. They lead with safety. When nearly half of nurses say their employers ignore workplace violence incidents after they’re reported [1], organizers have something better than a pay grievance. They have a story that unites every worker in the building, from housekeeping to…
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What Enterprise Health System CTOs Are Requiring for Power Resilience—And Why You Should Too
Key Takeaways The Emerging Standard: What Peer Organizations Now Require Enterprise health systems have begun requiring standalone power resilience as a procurement prerequisite—not a premium feature. In documented RFP cycles across behavioral health and integrated health systems, four specifications now appear as minimum requirements. Organizations still evaluating these capabilities as optional face a widening gap…
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4-Hour Power Outage. Zero Downtime. What Standalone Safety Architecture Actually Looks Like
Key Takeaways During a 4-hour power outage at a Pennsylvania health system, the staff duress infrastructure continued operating without interruption. No coverage gaps. No manual workarounds. No scramble to protect staff in the dark. That outcome was architectural, not accidental. And it exposes a vulnerability most CTOs have never evaluated in their current safety systems.…
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15 States, 9 Deadlines in 2025: Your Multi-State Violence Prevention Compliance Map
Key Takeaways The 2025 Enforcement Wave: What Changed Until 2024, most state workplace violence laws were advisory or lacked enforcement teeth. That’s over. Ohio became the first state to sign comprehensive hospital violence prevention into law on January 8, 2025, following a nurse’s death in Dayton [6]. Illinois followed with the nation’s first panic button…
