Healthcare Security Seminar Series
Our experts literally wrote the book on healthcare security, and now you can learn from the most influential voices in the industry.
Join us as we take you through a series of master classes on all of the intricacies of healthcare security. We'll show you how to improve the safety of your facility, workers, patients, and look at every aspect of healthcare security such as customer services in the emergency room, parking management impact on patient experience, and intelligence gathering on safety hazards and threats.
Next/Recent Event:
Negligent Security in Healthcare
Date: April 25, 2023 Time: 11:00 AM PDT
Topic:
Negligent security claims can be costly and time-consuming for hospitals and health systems, regardless of the outcome. Healthcare-related lawsuits involving inadequate security are on the rise. These cases typically hinge on proving duty, breach, damages, and causation. In this session, our host Tony York and guest William (Bill) Marcisz, JD, CPP, CHPA will discuss interesting cases from their careers in healthcare security and identify common security gaps that pose the greatest risk and exposure. Tune in to learn how to best defend your healthcare facility.
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Past Events:
Stop the Killing: Active Assailants in Healthcare
Topic:
Active assailant events are occurring in healthcare at an alarming rate. In this conversation, Tony will be joined by Katherine (Kate) Schweit, a licensed attorney and retired FBI Agent. Kate spent nearly five years as the executive responsible for the FBI’s active shooter efforts. Tony and Kate will discuss security assessment efforts including access, egress, and a particular focus on doors as suggested by Kate in her book "Stop the Killing," where she stresses that initial security assessments should begin with doors and locks, as they are "the most critical physical aspect of security in any building." These include doors people weren’t able to lock in time, allowing a shooter to gain access. “Front doors are the most common point of entry…but not always…the Columbine shooters entered through the back”.
Body-Worn Cameras in Healthcare Security
Topic:
In this session, Tony is joined by Alan Butler, past president of IAHSS and System Director of Public Safety & Security at Cox Health, to discuss the benefits of implementing body-worn camera technology (captured audio and video) inside of healthcare. Body-worn cameras have shown to significantly reduce legal and reputational risk for organizations and are expected to be standard equipment in most healthcare security programs in the next few years.
The two discuss how healthcare organizations can combat misinformation or inaccurate interpretations of how events unfold and help protect the organization while demonstrating transparency. Their discussion touches on the additional benefits that come from using captured footage as a valuable teaching tool for personnel and a means to deter undesired behavior.
Security Measures for Prisoner Patient Care and Safety
Topic:
In this conversation, Tony & Bryan will discuss the security measures that should be in place to safely care for the prisoner patient. This will include an overview of important policy expectations, a discussion on the power of orienting custodial agency and clinical staff and how to overcome some of the frequent decision-making challenges often associated when caring for these high-risk patients.
Guidance will be provided on best practices associated with the built environment as well as an interesting conversation around the data surrounding prisoner escape attempts from healthcare. This is another can't-miss session surrounding one of the highest-risk processes within healthcare.
Preparing for the Fallout of Roe vs Wade Reversal
Topic: The Roe vs Wade reversal has generated a lot of emotions in society, and that is something those of us in healthcare security must recognize and prepare for. In this conversation, our host Tony York will be joined by Kat Kemper, Ph.D., CHPA and Robert Burns and dive into the history of violence that has stemmed from such a heated issue and the lessons learned from the past.
The group will discuss the foreseen impacts that the reversal may have on a healthcare security program. Kat and Robert will also share their unique perspective on some evolved practices for how to monitor the threat environment as well as discuss some important mitigation techniques including how to have conversations with key stakeholders that go beyond the threats of violence.
Best Practices conducting a Healthcare Security Assessment with Tom Smith
Topic: Conducting a security assessment is a critical success factor for every healthcare security program. The identification and assessment of security risks serve as the basic foundation for most security program initiatives. Our host Tony York will be joined this month by Tom Smith, CHPA, President of Healthcare Security Consultants who has conducted hundreds of security program reviews and led consulting engagements in a wide variety of healthcare environments.
In this conversation, Tony and Tom will dive into the best practices surrounding how to conduct a security assessment in the healthcare environment and share individual techniques and tips they have learned over the years to establish a successful assessment.
The Basic Objectives of the Modern Healthcare Security Program
Speakers: Don MacAlister, CHPA, Former Chief Operating Officer, Paladin and PalAmerican Security
Topic: The inaugural session where our host Tony York will be joined by a very special guest – Don MacAlister, 2020 IAHSS Distinguished Lifeworks recipient and former Canadian Security Director of the Year.
Tony and Don wrote the last edition of Hospital and Healthcare Security together and will discuss the evolution of healthcare security in North America and how we have arrived at how security in today’s environment of care is best delivered. Together, they will dive deep into how healthcare security connects to the overall mission of care as well as the leadership characteristics and qualities most needed by the modern healthcare security administrator. A can’t miss session for aspiring early careerists, those who have served the industry for years or for the curious who enjoy learning about industry history.
Other Healthcare Security Webinars
Healthcare Security Protection Plan Training - Active Shooters
by Anjanette Hebert, VP, Healthcare, PalAmerican Security
and Katie Subbotina, Director of Global Risk Consulting at Paladin Risk Solutions
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