At Northwell Health (Northwell), a 21-hospital health system with 900 ambulatory sites and 85,000 employees, the security team has foregrounded training to prevent and respond to active shooter incidents.

As New York’s largest medical provider, Northwell employs around 1,000 security officers — approximately 75% of whom are proprietary — to protect facilities across the New York City metropolitan area. One hundred and forty-eight of those officers serve Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJMC), one of Northwell Health’s flagship hospitals. The security officers jointly serve LIJMC and Cohens Children’s Hospital, protecting the combined 700-bed, three-million-square-foot campus with a mix of armed and unarmed officers.