Presenters: Drew Neckar, CHPA and Bill Nesbitt

Hospitals, who are no strangers to lawsuits, often overlook suits involving premises liability and intentional torts but in reality have significant exposure to litigation surrounding their provision of “adequate” or “reasonable” security measures to protect their patients, visitors, contractors, employees, and the general public. This begs the question of what is an “adequate” amount of security for a healthcare organization? Security, and healthcare security in particular, is a situational discipline that does not lend itself to a one size fits all approach. What is a completely adequate level of security for one organization may be overkill for some and wholly inadequate for others based on the profile of the risks that they face.