Perry Spencer MS, CPP, CHPA

Perry Spencer, MS, CPP, CHPA, has worked in the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers (UMHHC) Security and Entrance Services Department since 1997. In 1999, he was named the Department's Manager of Uniform Operations, and in May of 2015 was appointed as the Interim Director, Health System and Hospitals Security, University of Michigan-Division of Public Safety and Security. Prior to that, Perry served 20 years in the United States Air Force Security Police, retiring in 1995. Perry was an early proponent of patient- and family-centered care at the UMHHC and was selected to sit on the C.S. Mott Children's and Women's Von Voigtlander's Hospitals PFCC Committee when it was formed in 2005. He was co-chair of the committee that authored the Family Presence and Visitation policy. He is an original member of the UMHHC's Cardiovascular Center PFCC Committee and was appointed to the C.S. Mott and Women's Von Voigtlander's Hospitals PFCC Executive Committee.

Perry has been an advocate of patient- and family-centered care in the health care security world authoring two articles on Security's role in patient- and family-centered care in the International Association of HealthCare Security and Safety's professional journal, Protection. He has presented at the Association's Annual General Membership Meeting on the topic. Perry has incorporated patient- and family-centered care training as a staple of his security team's core competencies and has infused PFCC core principles into his team's daily operations. In 2010, Perry was the recipient of the Annual HOPE Award recognizing him for his ongoing commitment to patient- and family-centered culture change at the University of Michigan Health System.