Research Reports

Hospitals and hospital security professionals today better understand how to manage security risks than at any time in history. Yet, the effectiveness of your security operations can be easily compromised by the increased and changing risks in our fast-paced world. Do you, as a hospital security professional, feel comfortable today with ideas and procedures developed yesterday?

This IOMA Research Report will help you grapple with difficult questions about your security operations, such as: Does your audit procedure address the new problems of today, or has it become a habituated process that rubberstamps your security efforts? Has your data collection on security incidents kept up with the times and with other hospitals like yours, or are you falling behind? Do you know how other facilities—including your competitors—are addressing security issues of all kinds?

The report is divided into four comprehensive sections designed to help you evaluate where your current program stands and to give you guidance on how to upgrade and improve it:

Best Practices. OSHA workplace safety regulations, JCAHO minimum security standards, plus recommended practices and guidelines from numerous associations (ASIS, NFPA, IAHSS and many more), and de facto security standards that can protect you from liability in the wake of a security event.

Compliance. Critical information on OSHA and JCAHO worker safety standards, plus how to handle workplace violence, how to develop plans that will please JCAHO surveyors, checklists and questionnaires, requirements for access control systems, details on the upcoming increase in HIPAA enforcement, plus case law to help you unravel murky issues when security and hospital management issues overlap.

Benchmarks. Data and analysis based on responses to two exclusive IOMA security management surveys, covering security policies and security measures at US hospitals, plus specific issues like technology, staff management, salaries, and performance measures.

Case Studies. Learn from the successes—and mistakes—of hospitals like yours, including issues such as deploying biometrics, securing homeland security funding, determining security department capacity, reducing compensation expenses through better scheduling and management, improving security officer recognition and performance, writing better maintenance contracts, and more.

In addition, you’ll find over 30 charts and tables of key benchmarks, analysis of survey data, and an extensive appendix that offers a model security management plan.

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