When your staff is cut: how one hospital coped with a one-third reduction in security officers
Carter, S.
Journal of Healthcare Protection Management Publication of the International Association for Hospital Security 1(1): 41-46
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0891-7930 PMID: 10270664 Document Number: 238072
With many hospitals struggling with DRG's and growing competition for patients, budget reduction in security and elsewhere is becoming more and more prevalent. Forced to deal with a severe cut in its security officers' staff in 1980, New England Memorial Hospital's security department has survived for four years by taking a number of steps that have achieved more with less. Here are some of the lessons learned.