Case Study

September 25, 2009

Atascadero State Hospital & Rehab Center, California

MARKS USA is proud to announce they have started the first phase of supplying Atascadero State Hospital & Rehab Center with their Grade 1 Institutional Life Safety Locksets. Atascadero State Hospital (ASH), opened in 1954, is an all-male, maximum security forensic facility serving the entire state of California. ASH is a completely self-contained psychiatric hospital constructed within a security perimeter.

Our Grade 1 Institutional Life Safety locksets are designed to address Managed Liability, Accident Prevention, Life Safety, and Security in Behavioral Health Care Institutions. The shape and construction of the SS55 Series Locksets are designed to restrict the attachment of lines, laces, etc. to door knobs. In addition, with the knobs recessed into the rosettes, the chance of capturing a line between the knob and rosette is substantially eliminated. The SS55 Locksets are currently in use at Coney Island, Bellevue and Jacobi Hospitals in New York, the Denver V.A. Hospital in Colorado and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in California to name a few.

MARKS USA manufactures the Institutional Life Safety Locksets for both mortise and cylindrical applications and offers large variety of functions. For applications where a greater security level is required, we suggest Marks USA HI-SECURITY™ Cylinders. These cylinders are constructed with sidebars and are drill, pick and bump resistant.

Marks USA was founded in 1977 by George Marks to manufacture mortise locks and  meet the needs of the security hardware market. Since then, the product line has been expanded dramatically. Products include architectural grade, BHMA & UL code compliant life safety, mortise, cylindrical and tubular locksets, electronic “free standing” access control, biometric fingerprint locksets,
ornamental iron locksets, deadbolts, locks for woven wire and patented HI-SECURITY™ Cylinders.