From a global perspective, Michelman believes hospitals are in a league of their own, in terms of security risks and vulnerabilities. Health care is an industry predominantly populated by women, and there are infants and children in hospitals who are highly vulnerable as well.
Hospitals also have major pharmacies with several million dollars of street-value drugs.
And research hospitals have to deal with terrorist groups who are violently opposed to animal research. These are all unique to health care. Farnsworth believes it's difficult to make a blanket statement. In Jacksonville there are five hospitals and each one has a different range of risks. I have two hospitals and a nursing home and the risks are different in each of their neighborhoods.