Healthcare patient entertainment education and surveillance monitoring system for use by patients for the delivery, reception and processing of cable television and entertainment, specifically commercial, patient education programming, on demand, special and live event programming comprised of entertainment software, entertainment transmission software and related hardware, namely, network routers, switches, hubs, CATV modulators, demodulators and head-ends, set-top boxes, set-top user controls, remote controls for controlling set-top boxes, pillow speakers and controllers, namely, audio and video controls used at patient beds with set-top box controls for interaction with set-top boxes and with audio speakers; data entry devices, namely, keyboards, mice and touch screen displays; voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) and video over Internet protocol devices, namely, personal computers, laptops, tablet computers, palmtops, notepads, smart devices, personal electronic communicators, smart phones and cell phones, and for use by facility personnel in viewing and monitoring patient areas through video and audio surveillance, real-time monitoring for the purpose of video incident reporting, video validation and documentation reporting, infant monitoring between nursery and maternity patient room, event prediction analysis and safety comprised of surveillance software, transmission software and surveillance analysis software and related hardware, namely, digital/analog surveillance cameras, camera trackers, camera controls, microphones, set-top boxes, surveillance remote control and selection devices, namely, set-top box remote controls, pillow speakers and controllers used at patient beds; and Internet enabled surveillance remote control and selection devices, namely, personal computers, laptops, tablet computers, palmtops, notepads, smart devices, personal electronic communicators, smart phones and cell phones; data storage devices, namely, network servers and local set top box memory; data entry devices, namely, keyboards, mice and touch screen displays; call buttons, proprietary and non-proprietary open wireless short range conductivity transceivers and wireless local area networking transceivers, FOB and RFID interrogators and barcode scanners