Everything a hospital security practitioner needs to know this year.
SCC Spectrum for Hospitals
50 CPP-authored standards. 50 state annexes. Starting at $2,499.
What’s in the 2026 edition
50 Security Standards Governance, physical security, command center interface, and emergency management. Every standard authored by a CPP under ASIS International practices.
50 State Annexes State-specific regulatory additions beyond the federal and accreditation baseline. Organized by FEMA region.
6 Program Framework Documents Preamble, definitions, roles, regulatory reference index, and a legislative and regulatory outlook.
11 Regulatory Appendices CMS, Joint Commission, DNV, ASIS, IAHSS, CISA, HIPAA, FEMA, and NFPA crosswalks, plus implementation guides for rural critical access and urban hospitals.
Spectrum for Hospitals 2026 — Starting at $2,499
You get the standards core plus the state of your choice. State, regional, and national options are priced on the order form.
Frequently Asked Questions
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You buy the edition once. SCC Spectrum for Hospitals is a reference almanac, not a subscription. A new edition is published each year and you decide whether to buy it.
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You adapt them, by design. SCC Spectrum publishes security standards, not finished policies. Each standard is the benchmark your facility's own policy is written to and measured against, so you tailor it to your building, your staffing, and your operations. The result is your policy, built to a recognized standard, which is what makes it defensible.
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Free templates are blank documents written to no particular regulation. SCC Spectrum for Hospitals is a CPP authored set of security standards mapped to CMS, Joint Commission, DNV, and IAHSS, so the policy you adapt from it holds up when a surveyor asks which standard it was built to.
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Yes. It covers the federal and accreditation requirements every hospital faces, with a dedicated annex for all 50 states covering the state-specific mandates.
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Yes. Every standard is mapped to the federal, accreditation, and IAHSS requirements surveyors check, so the policy you adapt from it lines up with what they are trained to look for.