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Virginia Tech shooting tested hospital's disaster plan

Healthcare Security Weekly, May 7, 2007

Montgomery Regional Hospital in Blacksburg, VA, was one of four facilities that treated people wounded in the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech.

The hospital received the first two students from the early morning shooting at one of the college's dormitories. Later that morning, the hospital went into disaster preparedness mode when it came over the police scanner that there were multiple gunshots fired at Virginia Tech, Scott Hill, chief executive officer of the hospital, told The Tennessean.

Hill was asked what advice he has for hospitals in preparing for such an event. "Hospitals should take their disaster preparedness and their disaster drills seriously, and they should regularly go over those plans and make sure they've done a proper assessment of those policies. Don't think it can happen to you? It can, even a quiet town like Blacksburg," Hill told the newspaper.

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