Anonymous
Source: Cottage Hospitals
Cottage Health continuously evaluates security procedures and partners with independent agencies to help keep our hospitals safe and maintain healing environments. This year we have decided to implement new security recommendations and want to share these with community members who may be visiting our hospitals.
Effective March 1, new security measures will include photo identification for visitors.
Photos will be taken at our hospitality desks upon check-in and printed on daily visitor passes. This will enable hospital staff to more quickly identify authorized visitors within the hospitals. Minors under age 14 will be provided with passes including only the photo of their accompanying adult.
We appreciate the community’s support in helping us to successfully implement past security enhancements. Thank you for helping us to protect our patients, community and hospital staff.
Then our photos can be uploaded to the biometric / Facial Recognition Database .
Could have been attempted child-napping by a non-custodial parent.
I worked in a hospital in New York, after 9 -11
The protocol changed…this is not new…
Safety, of patients, staff..
One entrance.
I.D….visitors pass….
I really don’t think there is crime at Cottage..
It is a great hospital..just trying to tighten things up…
Lmao nope, it’s so people who are in the wrong place are recognisable.
Some things have happened but nobody was harmed. An off duty officer left their gun in a public bathroom at one hospital and a suicidal person in their car outside the other, mixed with other less dramatic events, caused the hospital to have several group talks, including some with employees, to discuss everyone’s security concerns. Suggestions from staff ran the range and the hospital did research to see what other hospitals do. They opted NOT to put in metal detectors at the entries and is basing their choices on keeping patients and their families as happy as possible, while also thinking of everyone’s safety. There are several other changes but visitors won’t be impacted. Having your picture taken and on your badge is really a small thing.
How many visitors per day? 500? So based on the two incidences you mentioned, neither of which would have Not occurred with a photo ID, that’s 180k visitors per year now having to stop and have a photo taken. It’s time consuming, a major in convenience and allows the hospital to create a video catalog worse than an FBI file of every person that visits the facility. There is no information on whom this data is being shared with. The fact that you even try to downplay it is suspect. There isn’t now and has not been a a safety issue at Cottage. This derives from allowing a monopoly of healthcare in Santa Barbara Proper. You do as they say. It is wrong.
We live in a new era. That’s just how it is. We used to have all sorts of relaxed and trusting routines: kids out riding bikes freely, no need to lock doors, leave packages on doorsteps. Cottage is just being careful , and because of the cost of such a procedure, I’m pretty sure they examined some issues that warranted this.
It’s about time this was done
However it is a concern who this might be shared or sold to. Hope they can put that in print.
They’ve been video monitoring entrances and other areas for years, After-the-fact video has been used for investigations, the new protocol is simpler and faster if there is a problem.
It is totally not this. Have you ever worn a badge with a photo on it? Zero % of people will ever stop you and ask to see your badge. Think about it. If you were in the wrong place without a badge wouldn’t you be asked to leave? The badge does nothing. And where are these wrong places? Badges in fact make it so you do belong and will be less likely to be asked anything. The bigger component of photo IDs is not the ID itself but the data gathered on the public. Period. I sell software for a living. Our whole business model is predicated on building this database.