When your staff is cut: how one hospital coped with a one-third reduction in security officers

With many hospitals struggling with DRG's and growing competition for patients, budget reduction in security and elsewhere is becoming more and more prevalent. Forced to deal with a severe cut in its security officers' staff in 1980, New England Memorial Hospital's security department has survived for four years by taking a number of steps that have achieved more with less. Here are some of the lessons learned.