Disaster simulation at neighborhood hospitals

Mark N October 24th, 2007

If you thought there was more helicopter noise than usual around Maplewood last Thursday, you weren’t imagining things. Suburban Hostpital, the NIH Medical Center, and Navy Med sponsored an emergency drill to “simulate how community hospitals and emergency staffs would operate in the event of a catastrophe.” More than sixty “victims” participated in the exercise, which lasted over five hours.

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