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20,515 crimes within healthcare facilities were reported in 2012, which is a 5,524-crime increase over 2010. 

Rising prescription drug theft, especially of painkillers, lead the NYPD to implement new tracking procedures that will hopefully lead them to citywide stash locations.

Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center on Long Island, N.Y., had begun construction on a satellite parking lot for employees when security staff quickly realized that the lot’s remote location posed a surveillance challenge.

Because healthcare facilities typically have high numbers of visitors, an appropriate visitor system has to accommodate rapid guest check-ins, and also be unobtrusive for guests in the process.

The Director of Corporate Security for one of the largest healthcare systems in the nation discusses the Global Threat Reduction Initiative and what to expect.

As its practitioners well know, healthcare security is a unique industry, even though it has many challenges comparable to other security professions.

Most hospitals and their employees have seen the impact of violence in society, especially when victims enter emergency departments or trauma centers.

If experiments at assisted living facilities are any indication, the future of security and hospital management more broadly will be paved with sensors in every nook and cranny as well as on all types of equipment.

In healthcare facilities where patients and visitors, often understandably emotional, need a quiet environment, security technology can accommodate.

As enterprise security executives working other industries know, healthcare security needs to look inward in addition to considering patients and visitors when it comes to protection strategies.