Methodist Hospital comprises seven buildings, each of which is eight stories high, and five parking garages. It is located one and a half miles from both Indiana University Hospital and Riley Hospital, situated just a half block apart. The Indiana University Hospital is a cluster of three eight-story buildings joined together, and Riley is a single conglomerate that was constructed in four phases, each with seven floors.
As each hospital was independent, security solutions ran the gamut from outdated analog equipment to cameras that had simply ceased to function. Some of the more than 200 cameras were recorded; others were not. Access control consisted of everything from metal keys to card readers, which, of course, were not interchangeable when the hospitals merged.