Every healthcare facility employee is responsible to residents/patients, other staff, and visitors to keep them safe from criminal and dangerous activities. Additionally, facility management is responsible for protecting the physical plant from fire, vandalism, and other detrimental occurrences. Common sense drives the majority of security decisions within a long-term care facility. However, some guidelines should be respected when developing a sound security program within any organization, and additional items unique to the healthcare facilities should be considered, like the configuration of the existing physical plant, availability of funding and staffing, and, of course, the overall community environment in which the facility is located.