The healthcare environment -- Protecting a healing environment -- Healthcare security risks and vulnerabilities -- Security management planning -- Managing the basic elements of healthcare security -- Security department organization and staffing -- Leadership and professional development -- The healthcare security officer -- The security uniform and defensive equipment -- Training and development -- Deployment and patrol activities -- Program documentation and performance measures -- Patient care involvement and intervention -- Human resources and staff responsibilities -- Employee involvement and security awareness -- Investigative activity -- Security design considerations for healthcare -- Physical security safeguards -- Electronic security system integration -- Preventing and managing healthcare aggression and violence -- Areas of higher risk -- Areas of special concern -- Parking and the external environment -- Nonacute facilities and off-campus programs and services -- Emergency preparedness : planning and management -- A primer for healthcare executives