Nova Scotia Health serves Nova Scotians across 11 regional hospitals. When the organization examined how entry security was working across its facilities, what they found changed the conversation entirely.
A year of handheld wand screening at two emergency departments had already revealed that far more weapons were entering their facilities than anyone had anticipated. A trial of conventional walk-through metal detection proved unworkable at any entrance with meaningful foot traffic. Nova Scotia Health needed a solution that could secure high-traffic hospital entrances at scale without compromising the patient experience or creating new operational problems in the process.
The case study covers how the decision was made, how the deployment was structured across five regional hospitals, and what the results looked like in the months that followed, including outcomes that extended well beyond what the system intercepted at the door.
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