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Hospitals and healthcare institutions have always been hotbeds for emotion. Scared patients, family drama, and behavioral health concerns can escalate a discussion into a confrontation quickly. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this issue, necessitating an increased focus on healthcare employee safety and wellbeing, de-escalation techniques, and aggression detection tools.
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Audio and Acumen Against Aggression
Due to a surge of patients in recent years, administrators and healthcare providers at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (Willowbrook, California) have been forced to find new ways to treat people in a limited space while keeping 2,000 employees, staff, and contractors safe. To further reduce the number of violent incidents at the hospital, security decided to implement audio aggression and gunshot detection technology.
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Controlling Stress Responses for Better De-Escalation
Typical situations do not immediately trigger our primitive survival instincts, otherwise we would all be running around like Lou Ferrigno in “The Incredible Hulk.” However, when someone loses control or snaps, this is exactly what is happening. With proper awareness, building tension can be identified as the beginning of this biochemical domino effect. Catching it early offers a chance to stop ourselves from behaving unprofessionally.
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Can Your Healthcare Facility Better Leverage Security Technology?
It's critical for healthcare facilities to fortify against an emerging threat landscape while still maintaining a calm and healing environment. Forward-thinking institutions are implementing strategies that include a holistic approach with greater coordination between people, departments and access control technologies to create a safer, more secure environment. Learn more in the new eBook, How Leaders in Healthcare Security Leverage Technology and Policy for a Safer Campus. Get your digital copy today.
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Engaging Employees on Their Mental Health
There has never been a more important time to be mindful of the mental health of employees than now. After what organizations have endured during the past 18 months, it’s remarkable that so many organizations can point to quick adaptation and resiliency on the part of their employees as amazing successes. However, we may be seeing the costs that come with that success.
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Drug Diversion and Loss Prevention: A Changing Landscape
Today, in the face of a global pandemic and economic recession, profiting from drug diversion may become more tempting than ever. Increased regulatory and legal risks, the opioid epidemic, and an evolving drug abuse landscape have also made drug diversion and loss prevention a higher priority in the healthcare system than ever before.
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Healthcare solutions that provide positive results
From license-free intelligent video analytics to the strongest cybersecurity measures to seamless integration with VMS applications, Hanwha Techwin’s security and surveillance solutions are the right healthcare choice for keeping staff and patients safe, protecting data privacy and maintaining a welcoming public environment.
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Contracting for Adaptable Healthcare Support
Large health systems are incredibly diverse in both geographic footprint and the variety of services offered. Developing and executing security measures that protect the staffs, patients, consumers, and visitors of health facilities is a complex endeavor that requires detailed planning, flexibility, and engaging partners that can fulfill multiple needs.
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A Record of Violence: Protecting Healthcare Staff with Data
When the University of California San Diego Health System's Threat Assessment and Management Committee reviewed workplace incidents that had occurred, they spotted an opportunity for improving identification and communication of security risks from returning patients. The committee realized that there were multiple incidents where an admitted patient would assault an employee; the patient would return a couple of days later, perhaps admitted to the emergency department, and assault another staffer.
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Resource: Special Watch Security Officer
The Seattle Children’s Hospital established a new security job designed specifically to decrease incidents of patients harming themselves or others. The job is unlike other front-line security, with specialized skills and training. You can sign-up to receive the job description Seattle Children’s uses to find candidates for the position.
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Best Practices in Healthcare Security Featuring Visitor Management at Rush University Medical Center
With one eye on technology and the other on culture change, Rush University Medical Center Security Director Lauris V. Freidenfelds explains how the healthcare system revamped its approach to visitor management. The process started with a detailed risk assessment, which led to solutions that included both new technology and new procedures.
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