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Hospital & Health Systems: Best Practices in Hospital Anti-Terrorism

Hospital & Health Systems: Best Practices in Hospital Anti-Terrorism. Scot Phelps, JD, MPH, Paramedic, CEM/CBCP/MEP Associate Professor of Emergency Management School of Health & Human Services Southern Connecticut State University. The Problem. 400%.

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Hospital & Health Systems: Best Practices in Hospital Anti-Terrorism

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  1. Hospital & Health Systems: Best Practices in Hospital Anti-Terrorism

  2. Scot Phelps, JD, MPH, Paramedic, CEM/CBCP/MEPAssociate Professor of Emergency ManagementSchool of Health & Human ServicesSouthern Connecticut State University

  3. The Problem

  4. 400%

  5. “It's not feasible to have security devices in hospitals that you would see in airports and courthouses….Hospitals are large places with numerous entrances and exits.”

  6. Hospital officials will "take any appropriate measures" to ensure patient safety, but metal detectors and searches "would really not be appropriate.”"We're not an airport….We're a quasi-public institute and building. ... It's not the same level of security as an airport."

  7. Critical Infrastructure: Public Health & Healthcare

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