I support this amendment. Working in the hospital, one comes in contact with all patients. Mental health issues are not just seen in psychiatric care. They are seen throughout the hospital because these patients have medical issues that require treatment in addition to they psychiatric problems. I personally have had issues with patient's getting my name off my badge and looking me up in the phone book or online and calling me. They were inappropriate calls to the point of sexual advances. I had a coworker several years ago that was stalked by a former patient who had her full name from her name badge and looked her up and found where she lived. Unfortunately, in today's society, one needs to be more vigilant about their safety. Violence can happen anywhere. We are not able to tell when a patient comes to the hospital for care if they are going to be someone that could cause harm. One way to protect health care workers safety is to remove last names from name badges. This prevents patients from being able to threaten, harass or stalk an employee. Please consider the safety of health care workers when reading this bill and do the right thing for us. Remove last names from hospital badges.