The Pathway to Violence: Closing the Digital Gaps in Healthcare Safety

Event Schedule by Time Zone: 
Pacific: 10 AM to 11 AM | Mountain: 11 AM to 12 PM | Central: 12 PM to 1 PM | Eastern: 1 PM to 2 PM

Healthcare organizations have made significant strides in addressing workplace violence, yet many existing programs focus primarily on incidents that occur within healthcare facilities. As targeted and premeditated threats evolve, risk professionals must examine vulnerabilities that extend beyond hospital walls.

This webinar explores how motivated threat actors can exploit publicly available information, healthcare-related workflows, and digital data sources to identify, track, and locate executives, clinicians, and staff members. Attendees will gain insight into the operational gaps that can exist within traditional workplace violence prevention frameworks and learn how employee data may unintentionally contribute to physical surveillance efforts.

Through practical examples and actionable strategies, participants will discover how to disrupt the research phase that often precedes targeted violence. The session will highlight cost-effective approaches to reducing risk by removing or limiting access to personal information, helping protect employees and their families while strengthening organizational security.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the operational gaps in standard hospital Workplace Violence committees that fail to address premeditated, planned attacks against staff.
2. Identify the operational gaps in standard hospital Workplace Violence committees that fail to address premeditated, planned attacks against staff.
3. Formulate a practical risk-mitigation strategy that shields employees and their families by removing home records from the pathway to violence, avoiding the high costs of physical bodyguards.

Speakers:

Kelsi Strutton spent 13+ years with the U.S. Marshals Service in the Judicial Security Division, serving as the national SME for the Court Security Officer program and overseeing risk mitigation across all federal courthouses. Now as Senior Account Manager at Ironwall, she continues protecting high-risk individuals, bringing deep expertise in privacy protection and trusted client leadership.

Matthew Wainscott is a behavioral threat assessment practitioner who helps organizations identify and manage individuals on a pathway to targeted violence. A U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, he serves with a healthcare-based police department, conducting threat assessments to keep patients, staff, and clinicians safe. He is the founder of Overwatch Advisory, a consulting firm providing threat management and decision support to healthcare systems and mid-sized organizations. Matt holds the Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator (CHPA) credentials and is a graduate of the Gavin de Becker & Associates Advanced Threat Assessment Academy.

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