GERALD R. SCHULTZ, P.E., Principal, and DAVID POLENSKY, Senior Security Designer, Gage Babcock Assoc., Oak Brook, Ill.

Securing Health

Consulting engineers have new reasons to revisit the security risks at health-care facilities. In addition to the increasing risks of theft, infant abductions and emergency-room violence, there are increasingly stringent standards. Most noteworthy is the issuance by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health-Care Organizations (JCAHO) of its "Environment of Care" standards, which represen...