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Tip of the week: Reassess emergency plans after incidents
Healthcare Security Weekly, August 13, 2007
San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) learned firsthand how its disaster plan would stack up, after three pipe bombs were discovered May 22 and June 6 at an outpatient clinic on its sprawling urban campus. Taking the initiative, emergency planners at SFGH integrated the lessons they learned into their response plan.
"We did a report that looked at what worked well [and] what didn't go so well," says Delvecchio Finley, SFGH's administrator for support services. "You learn to check your assumptions in the aftermath of an event. We have already implemented changes."
The bomb incidents forced SFGH to look hard at its emergency plan and update pieces of it, such as employee notification procedures, after some employees learned about the bomb scare through the TV news.
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