After having worked in a variety of healthcare environments as a practitioner and consultant since 1981, I am now fortunate to be President of Healthcare Security Consultants, Inc. (HSC). Our corporate mission is assisting healthcare organizations to develop and maintain reasonable, appropriate, cost-effective and defensible security programs. Our primary services include: Consultation • Healthcare Security Program Reviews • Focused Reviews on higher risk (Security Sensitive) areas • Healthcare Systems / Multiple Facility Program Reviews • Electronic and Physical Security Systems Assessment and Design • Special Needs Assessments Program Enhancements • Program Transition Management • Contract Specification Development/ Evaluation/ Transition • Transition Management during Administrative Change • Concentrated Training / Mentoring for New/ Existing Security Management • Security Program Model Evaluation/Redesign • Electronic Security Evaluation, Design, Specification Development, etc. Healthcare Security Training • Hospital Security and Patient Elopement: Protecting Patients and Your Healthcare Facility • Development and Implementation of Healthcare Workplace Violence Programs • Designing Security into New Construction and Renovation Projects • Security Focused Regulatory Agency Investigations: Preventing and Responding CMS, OSHA, TJC Investigations • Securing Prisoner (Forensic) Patients • Securing Areas of Higher Risk (Security Sensitive Areas) Expert Witness/ Consulting • Case Advice • Site Visits/Case Assessment • Testimony Designing Security into Healthcare Facility Projects • Development of Corporate Security Design Standards • Evaluation of Security Features for New Construction and Renovation Projects • Designing Security Features to Reduce Patient Elopement and Wondering Recruitment and Development of Security Leadership Positions • Recruitment of Security leaders • Security Management Development / Mentoring