New weapons screening technology comes to Brain and Spine Hospital main entrance

There will be a new arrival experience that may interrupt your walking paths if you use shortcuts through any Wexner Medical Center hospital corridors. As of Friday, Aug. 15, new weapons screening technology goes live at the Brain and Spine Hospital main entrance.

This means everyone who passes through this public entrance will walk through a scanner that’s intended to detect weapons like firearms, knives (including pocket knives) and mace. While unintentional, some everyday metal objects that aren’t weapons, like laptops, umbrellas and metal drinking containers, can also signal an alert.

Brain and Spine is the third of our locations to receive this equipment, after Harding Hospital and the East Hospital tower entrance. A phased implementation continues in September, bringing online many of the other public entrances on main campus and the East Hospital surgery center.

Learners who are employed by the medical center and were issued ID badges should use staff-only entrances, allowing you to bypass the scanning equipment.