Wind, rain, and tremors.
Everbridge
How are staff notified of emergency events in the hospital?
Hospital Incident Command
Who makes the decision to evacuate the hospital?
Code Silver
What is the Emergency Code for an Active Shooter?
Emergency Department
Often the first department that is aware of a mass casualty event and through which patients are (triaged)sorted.
Basement
Where is the safest place to be in a building in the event of a radiation incident?
Away from windows
Where is the first, safe place to move patients in the event that we are in the path of a tornado?
Lateral Evacuation
How are patients initially moved when the stucture is compromised?
As much information as possible.
What information you gather in the event that you receive a bomb threat?
Ambulatory Care Unit (ACU)
What is the designated "alternative care site" in the hospital where less acute patients are sent in the event the Emergency Department exceeds capacity in an MCI.
Outside the morgue
Where is the decontamination area established at the Southbridge campus?
Situational Awareness
What it means to be aware of what is happening around you in terms of where you are, where you are suposed to be, and whether anyone or anything around you is a threat to your health and safety.
Ambulatory Patients
In the event of an evacuation, which patients are moved first?
The 4 "L"s
What is locate, lock down, leave, and live?
Medical Arts Building and Conference rooms 1&2
Where does staff enter the building and report to the "Labor Pool" for assignment during an MCI?
Nuclear Medicine, Plant Operations, and Cardiac Stress Department.
Where are the radiation detection devices located?
Rides and shelter
What are 2 resources the hospital will work to make available to staff in the event of a significant weather event.
Evacuation Sled
How do we move non-ambulatory patients down the stairs?
Public Safety and Law Enforcement
Which two departments work closely together in the events such as an active shooter, bomb threat, hostage incident, and missing person (Code Green)?
Clinical Coordinator
Who is the person resonsible to relay information to administration in the event of an MCI
Fire Department and Massachusetts HazMat
What are 2 available resources in our community trained and equiped to assist our hospital and community in a hazardous material incident.
Hazardous Vulnerability Analysis (HVA)
What is the process for identifying the hospital's highest vulnerabilities to natural and man-made hazards and the effect these hazards may have on the hospital and community.
Light on and door closed
How a room is left when all individuals are evacuated?
Don't touch and call Public Safety!
What you do when you discover a suspicious package?
The Cancer Center
Where are family/friends sent to await information. Also known as the "Reunification" location
Online and in the Southbridge Emergency Department
Where are Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) kept?