Hospitals play a crucial role in communities, and ensuring their safety and security is paramount. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers a valuable resource through the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP), providing eligible healthcare institutions the opportunity to access funds for specific security enhancements.

Unlocking the potential of the NSGP Grant involves deploying advanced technologies, such as state-of-the-art video security systems and cutting-edge access control systems. This encompasses the revitalization or upgrading of software and hardware, ensuring that hospitals stay ahead in the realm of security.

Convergint is leveraging Motorola Solutions safety and security ecosystem to provide solutions that are Solving for Safer Hospitals. These solutions are designed to work together, seamlessly. Voice, video, and data are unified, where information flows, operations run, and collaboration improves to help strengthen safety everywhere. The ultimate goal is to proactively mitigate risks and avoid incidents before they unfold, reinforcing the safety and resilience of our healthcare institutions.

Safety Reimagined: Safe Hospitals

  • Detect
    Avigilon security cameras use artificial intelligence to create high visibility and eliminate blind spots across facilities, helping users stay in the know when incidents occur. Access control provides entry management, immediate lockdown capabilities, and push notifications to devices. Ensure all personnel—across multiple teams and devices—are automatically informed of critical information simultaneously and automatically when a situation is detected.

  • Analyze
    Avigilon Appearance Search capabilities quickly and seamlessly explore video footage to identify persons or vehicles of interest across a campus or parking lot. Video analytics detect potentially suspicious or potentially dangerous activity, providing real-time insights into facility-wide movements. The Avigilon Focus of Attention interface in Avigilon Unity Video software quickly brings attention to video security events of interest, increasing efficiency and improving response time when evaluating a situation.

  • Communicate
    Radio communications instantly and reliably connects security, staff, and local law enforcement when needed. Broadband push-to-talk with multimedia capabilities extends reach by enabling voice and data information to be shared across devices to those in other sister facilities or off-site. Mass notification capabilities make it easy to notify and share information with an entire organization at a moment’s notice.

  • Respond
    Dynamic interoperability makes it easy to directly share data with public safety response teams in real-time, enhancing situational awareness. Incident management streamlines the logging of incident reports. This makes it easy to associate multimedia with the reports and inform future decision-making. Enabling rapid response and documenting past incidents can be the key to preventing incidents and creating a safer hospital.

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Want more information on any of the technologies discussed in this article? Contact Convergint today and speak with an expert to learn more!

Effective security and safety is a multi-layered approach involving people, processes, and technologies. Convergint-provided products and services are only one part of this multi-layered approach, will not detect or prevent all threats or solve every risk, and should not be your sole method of security or safety. Please see the “IMPORTANT PRODUCT SAFETY AND SERVICE INFORMATION” documentation, available at convergint.com/terms, prior to using a Convergint-installed system.

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