Spotlight on Healthcare Campus Safety Director of the Year Finalist Paul Sarnese
Check out some of this Director of the Year finalist’s top accomplishments, as well as a photo gallery of him and his department.
Virtua Health Assistant Vice President of Environmental Services, Security, and Safety Paul Sarnese
Congratulations to Virtua Health Assistant Vice President of Environmental Services, Security, and Safety Paul Sarnese for being named one of this year’s Healthcare Campus Safety Director of the Year finalists.
Here are some of his notable achievements:
- Working with union representatives and homecare leadership, deployed a mobile application that provides an emergency panic button, virtual escorts and community warnings to homecare and community providers.
- Led a team of volunteers to construct a sensory room at a mega COVID vaccination site for special needs patients. This room was used to vaccinate over 1,000 special needs children and adults and became the standard for all mega sites in New Jersey.
- Acted as the deputy incident commander and organized and facilitated standing meetings with various agencies to manage the safety, security, communications, supplies, and care of more than 11,000 Afghan refugees.
Read about the other healthcare finalists.
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Robin has been covering the security and campus law enforcement industries since 1998 and is a specialist in school, university and hospital security, public safety and emergency management, as well as emerging technologies and systems integration. She joined CS in 2005 and has authored award-winning editorial on campus law enforcement and security funding, officer recruitment and retention, access control, IP video, network integration, event management, crime trends, the Clery Act, Title IX compliance, sexual assault, dating abuse, emergency communications, incident management software and more. Robin has been featured on national and local media outlets and was formerly associate editor for the trade publication Security Sales & Integration. She obtained her undergraduate degree in history from California State University, Long Beach.
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