Corporate Compliance

Security risks

Healthcare Auditing Weekly, January 4, 2005

Assessing your organization's security risks and the degree of those risks can help protect your patients and staff. Use the following checklist when auditing security risks:

  • Determine what risks affect each department and organizational function

  • Obtain crime information or data for the area in which the hospital is located-include at least a one-mile radius

  • Review past security reports

  • Develop a profile for the hospital's unique security risks

  • Consider what patients and employees see as security concerns

  • Develop an interdisciplinary inspection team

    To learn more about assessing security risks, including a list of significant risks and tips for developing a security risk profile, order the book "Hospital Auditing and Monitoring: Sample Programs for Key Risk Areas ," published by HCPro, Inc. This book is a step-by-step, practical manual that offers sample audit programs for the most troublesome areas that a hospital must audit. The binder and CD-ROM are filled with actual audit programs used by auditors and compliance officers in the field. Click here for more information or to order your copy today.

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