Security Design Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities 4th Edition

The IAHSS Security Design Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities, 4th Edition, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date best practices for designing appropriate security measures into each new construction and renovation project. Developed by leading health care security experts and design professionals, this NEW edition reflects significant updates and new guidelines for outpatient facilities (medical office buildings and outpatient clinics), and design principles that can help mitigate violence in health care, such as weapons screening.

This publication is intended to guide health care security practitioners, design teams and building owner representatives involved in the design process to consider and integrate these best practices, where appropriate, into each new and renovated health care facility (HCF) space.

General Guideline Primary Intents:

• The General Guideline recognizes that new construction or renovation of existing HCFs presents the best opportunity to effectively integrate security principles in HCFs.
• The initial planning and conceptual design phase of all newly constructed or renovated HCFs shall include a Security Vulnerability Assessment led by a Qualified Healthcare Security Professional.

Content Sections:

• Inpatient Facilities
• Emergency Departments
• Behavioral/Mental Health Areas
• Pharmacies
• Cashier and Cashiers and Collection Areas
• Infant and Pediatric Facilities

• Protected Health Information Areas
• Utility, Mechanical and Infrastructure Areas
• NEW - Weapons Screening and Detection
• NEW - Outpatient Facilities
• Residential/Long Term Care
• Emergency Management