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Security still staffs to square footage.

GuardisOne sets security staffing from what happens inside your hospital, by post and by shift, using data you already keep.

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Same building.
Two answers.

1. Pick a hospital size

2. How much security work is there?

Square footage–
Acuity–

Officers (FTE), posts included, for the same building

 

Square footage can’t see a behavioral health unit, an overnight ED or a year of assaults. Acuity can.

The need

Every officer, traced to a cause.

What drives the number at your hospital, strongest first, beside the figure it was read from.

The return

What the added officers pay back.

The plan’s price, beside what running short already costs: overtime, work time lost to staff assaults, and citations on record.

What running short already costs this hospital, from its own records

  1. $722Ka year in overtime to cover today’s gap of 10.9 FTEStaffing plan, area security wages
  2. 246 daysaway from work after staff assaults in 2025, at least $78K in wages. Most cases were in the emergency department (9) and the behavioral health unit (7); the plan staffs to them.OSHA injury logs, CMS cost report
  3. 6 citations3 from OSHA since 2016, with $46K in penalties, and 3 from CMS for restraint and seclusion in ten yearsOSHA enforcement, CMS surveys

A sample hospital. Every figure comes from the hospital’s own public records and its own staffing data, and the report cites each one. GuardisOne doesn’t promise fewer assaults: it shows where they happen and puts officers there.

The shift

From headcount to the shift.

Your fixed posts, plus the officers your acuity adds to patrol, respond and escort, shift by shift.

Every month

A baseline that keeps up.

Add each month’s figures and the trends, the forecast and the plan by year update with them.

The report

Ready for the survey and the budget meeting.

A written report that traces every figure to its source, mapped to the requirements you answer to.

  • Joint Commission worksite analysis§2–3
  • California §1257.7 plan§3–4
  • OSHA recordable violence§2
  • Board and CFO request§1

Hospital security in the news

11 stories, November 2024 to May 2026

Eleven stories in eighteen months.

After each one, a board asks how the security headcount was set. Have the answer written down before they ask.

  1. NBC ConnecticutNovember 2024Armed guards coming to some healthcare facilities after workers report dangers
  2. ABC13January 2025Nurse suffers broken leg after patient allegedly attacked her in NC emergency room
  3. OR ManagerApril 2025Health systems boost security spending as workplace violence escalates
  4. AxiosJune 2025Workplace violence costs hospitals more than $18B: report
  5. Spectrum News 1June 2025Ohio nurses push for safer workplaces
  6. 6abc PhiladelphiaJuly 2025Temple Hospital nurses, staffers demand more security measures
  7. ABC11October 2025‘The stress is still there’: Workplace violence top of mind for nurses in the Triangle
  8. Campus SafetyDecember 2025Fatal stabbing at San Francisco General followed years of calls for increased security
  9. Mission LocalDecember 2025As violence rose, S.F. health workers say safety proposals were ignored
  10. Missouri IndependentFebruary 2026Missouri nurses are done normalizing violence
  11. Spectrum NewsMay 2026Rising violence against healthcare workers is changing New York hospitals and contributing to staffing crisis

5 times

as likely as other workers to be hurt by violence on the job. That’s healthcare.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Why now

Regulators want the work shown.

Accreditors and state regulators are moving workplace-violence programs toward documented, evidence-based decisions.

  1. In forceCalifornia §1257.7Annual assessment and a security plan that covers staffing.
  2. Jan 2022The Joint CommissionAnnual workplace-violence worksite analysis.
  3. 2025Oregon SB 537A healthcare workplace-violence rule.
  4. Dec 2026Cal/OSHA, SB 553A workplace-violence standard for California.

$61K

to replace one bedside nurse. Workplace violence is one of the reasons they leave.

NSI 2025 Retention Report

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Nursing staffs to acuity.
Security still staffs to square footage.

GuardisOne sets security staffing from what actually happens in your hospital: assaults, behavioral health calls, emergency volume and trauma level. You get a headcount by post and by shift, and a report that shows how it was reached.

Done remotely in 30 days. No software, no patient data.

Get your baselineHow it works
Staffing estimateSame building, two ways
Square-footage answer–officers (FTE), posts included
Acuity answer–officers (FTE), posts included

Calculating…

What the added officers pay back
Trauma levelLevel I

The written report maps to

  • The Joint Commission
  • OSHA 29 CFR 1904
  • Cal/OSHA
  • CMS
  • IAHSS

Two hospitals the same size can have very different nights. Square footage can’t see a behavioral health unit, an overnight emergency department or a year of assaults. Acuity can.

The need

Every officer, traced to a cause.

The assessment names what drives the number at your hospital, strongest first, beside the figure it was read from, so the headcount explains itself.
How it works

The return

What the added officers pay back.

A staffing plan has a price. The assessment sets it beside what running short already costs: overtime, work lost to staff assaults, and citations on the public record.

What running short already costs this hospital, from its own records

  1. $722Ka year in overtime to cover today’s gap of 10.9 FTEStaffing plan, area security wages
  2. 246 daysaway from work after staff assaults in 2025, at least $78K in wages. Most cases were in the emergency department (9) and the behavioral health unit (7); the plan staffs to them.OSHA injury logs, CMS cost report
  3. 6 citations3 from OSHA since 2016, with $46K in penalties, and 3 from CMS for restraint and seclusion in ten yearsOSHA enforcement, CMS surveys

A sample hospital. Every figure comes from the hospital’s own public records and its own staffing data, and the report cites each one. GuardisOne doesn’t promise fewer assaults: it shows where they happen and puts officers there.

The shift

From headcount to the shift.

Your fixed posts, plus the non-posted officers your acuity calls for to patrol, respond and escort, laid out hour by hour and shift by shift.

Every month

A baseline that keeps up.

Add each month’s figures and the trends, the forecast and the plan by year update with them.

The report

Ready for the survey and the budget meeting.

Each assessment comes with a written report that traces every figure to its source, mapped to the requirements you already answer to.

Security staffing assessmentRiverside Regional Medical Center

1Executive summary

Riverside Regional carries a medium overall risk, driven by behavioral security responses and recordable workplace violence. We recommend 96.9 security FTE: 59.0 for posted officers and 37.9 non-posted, with the heaviest coverage in the emergency department and behavioral health unit.

2Worksite analysis

180 behavioral security responses, rising from 12 a month to 18 over the year, and 22 OSHA-recordable workplace violence cases. Evening and overnight shifts carry most incidents.

3Staffing plan

Posted officers59.0 FTE
Non-posted officers37.9 FTE
Recommended96.9 FTE

4Security plan coverage

Posts, patrol routes and response roles by shift.

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  1. Board and CFOStaffing budget requestSection 1
  2. OSHA 29 CFR 1904Recordable workplace violenceSection 2
  3. The Joint CommissionAnnual worksite analysisSections 2 and 3
  4. California §1257.7Security assessment and planSections 3 and 4

Hospital security in the news

11 stories, November 2024 to May 2026

Eleven stories in eighteen months.

After each one, a board asks how the security headcount was set. Have the answer written down before they ask.

  1. NBC ConnecticutNovember 2024Armed guards coming to some healthcare facilities after workers report dangers
  2. ABC13January 2025Nurse suffers broken leg after patient allegedly attacked her in NC emergency room
  3. OR ManagerApril 2025Health systems boost security spending as workplace violence escalates
  4. AxiosJune 2025Workplace violence costs hospitals more than $18B: report
  5. Spectrum News 1June 2025Ohio nurses push for safer workplaces
  6. 6abc PhiladelphiaJuly 2025Temple Hospital nurses, staffers demand more security measures
  7. ABC11October 2025‘The stress is still there’: Workplace violence top of mind for nurses in the Triangle
  8. Campus SafetyDecember 2025Fatal stabbing at San Francisco General followed years of calls for increased security
  9. Mission LocalDecember 2025As violence rose, S.F. health workers say safety proposals were ignored
  10. Missouri IndependentFebruary 2026Missouri nurses are done normalizing violence
  11. Spectrum NewsMay 2026Rising violence against healthcare workers is changing New York hospitals and contributing to staffing crisis

Healthcare workers are five times as likely as other workers to be hurt by violence on the job. Square‑footage staffing doesn’t account for that.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Why now

Security staffing is being asked to show its work.

Accreditors and state regulators are moving workplace-violence programs toward documented, evidence-based decisions. Staffing is where that lands.

In force

California §1257.7

Annual security assessment, and a security plan built from it that covers staffing.

Source

January 2022

The Joint Commission

Annual workplace-violence worksite analysis, incident tracking and leadership oversight.

Source

2025

Oregon SB 537

A healthcare workplace-violence rule moves through Oregon OSHA.

Source

By December 2026

Cal/OSHA, SB 553

A workplace-violence prevention standard must be adopted for California employers.

Source

Who it hurts

The people it hurts are the hardest to replace.

Most workplace-violence injuries in the U.S. happen in healthcare, and every nurse who leaves takes months and tens of thousands of dollars to replace.

73%

of nonfatal workplace-violence injuries in the U.S. happen to healthcare workers.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
$61K

to replace one bedside RN. Workplace violence is one of the reasons nurses leave.

NSI 2025 Retention Report

Find out what your hospital actually needs.

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