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Security Guards in Texas Medical Center
Security guards around the Texas Medical Center: medical office buildings, clinics, student and staff housing, garages, hotels and construction on the campus.
From our Sugar Land headquarters
About 25 to 35 minutes from our Sugar Land headquarters by US 59 (I-69) and Main Street or by Highway 288, longer at shift change.
- Headquarters
- 77 Sugar Creek Center Boulevard, Suite 600, Sugar Land, Texas 77478
- Dispatch
- (281) 326-9189 · 24/7
- License
- TX DPS #B09430601
The property mix
What we protect in Texas Medical Center.
Medical office buildings and clinics
Beyond the hospitals, which have their own security departments, the Medical Center and its edges hold private medical office buildings, specialty clinics, dialysis and imaging centers, and physician practices that need entrance posts and lot coverage.
Housing for students and staff
Apartment communities and student housing along Main, Holcombe and Braeswood serve the medical schools and the hospitals' workforce, with residents on every shift and garages that are busy at midnight.
Garages and hotels
Parking structures serve patients, visitors and staff around the clock, and the hotels along Main and Fannin house families of patients, with lobbies and garages that never close.
Construction on and around the campus
New towers, research buildings and residential projects rise on tight sites with cranes over occupied streets, hot work in occupied buildings and fire watch requirements as systems are brought online.
Serving the Medical Center from Sugar Land
The Texas Medical Center is a straight run up US 59 and Main Street from Price Protection’s Sugar Land headquarters, or up Highway 288 from the south, about half an hour outside shift change. Officers who work inside the loop rotate between Medical Center, Downtown and Midtown posts, and a supervisor comes in for the walk-through and the monthly review, with the building’s garage arrangement in the post orders before the first shift.
What the Medical Center asks for
Medical office buildings and clinics ask for an entrance and reception post during clinic hours, lot coverage at opening and closing and escorts for staff leaving after dark. Housing for students and staff asks for courtesy patrol and lobby posts that fit residents on every shift. Garages ask for rounds through the levels and a presence at the entrances at shift change. Hotels ask for an overnight lobby post beside the front desk. Contractors on the campus ask for hot-work fire watch and impairment watch in occupied buildings, and for gate control on sites that have no fence line. Hospital systems contract supplementary posts by their own process when they need them.
Local factors that shape the post
The Medical Center runs on shifts, not office hours. Its garages, streets and housing are busiest at seven in the morning, three in the afternoon and eleven at night, and its posts are timed to those changes. Patients and families arrive in distress and leave at all hours; officers on these posts are chosen for manner and trained in de-escalation and first aid. The rail line and the bayou shape access and flooding, and the campus’s own police and security presence is written into the post orders as the partner the officer works alongside.
Starting coverage in the Medical Center
Send dispatch the building’s address and type, the hours and the shift pattern, the procedures the building already uses and the name of someone who can walk it with a supervisor. The post orders come from that visit and the first report arrives the morning after the first shift. Neighboring areas have their own pages: Downtown to the north, Midtown and Montrose to the northwest and Bellaire and West University to the west.
Questions
Security in Texas Medical Center.
Do you work inside the hospitals?
Hospitals in the Medical Center run their own security departments and contract supplementary posts by their own process. Price Protection's posts around the campus are usually private medical office buildings, clinics, housing, garages and hotels, and hospital posts where a system contracts them.
Can you cover a medical office building or a clinic?
Yes. An entrance and reception post during clinic hours, lot coverage at opening and closing, staff escorts after dark and a daily report to the practice manager are the usual arrangement.
What about student and staff housing?
Courtesy patrol and lobby posts sized to the building, with guest policy enforcement, garage rounds and a daily report, written with the housing manager around the shift patterns of the residents.
Do you provide fire watch in the Medical Center?
Yes. Impairment fire watch when a sprinkler or alarm system is down in an occupied building, and hot-work fire watch on construction and renovation, staffed on short notice and logged for the fire marshal.
Which agencies apply in the Medical Center?
Houston Police, with the Medical Center's own police and security presence on campus properties, and the Houston Fire Marshal's Office for fire watch questions. Post orders record the contacts for the specific building.
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Request a proposal in Texas Medical Center.
Two short steps. Dispatch reviews every request and calls you back about coverage. For urgent unarmed coverage we can typically staff most sites within hours.
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(281) 326-9189