Rochester hospitals contemplate surge capacity
Emergency Management Alert, October 18, 2004
The University of Rochester (NY) Medical Center held a conference last week focusing on surge capacity from a terrorist incident.
Experts, who spoke at the seminar, said Rochester was relatively well-prepared for a mass casualty incident, the Democrat & Chronicle reported. However, experts agreed that good is never good enough in terms of emergency preparedness.
Experts from federal and state agencies, hospitals, and private companies outlined the following capacity-related problems:
*Many communities would have too few nurses and suffer staff burn out.
*Victims arriving to the hospital on their own would cause major traffic problems and clog the system for victims arriving by ambulance
*A large amount of patients concerned about possible exposure would arrive at the hospital
Dr. Andrew Doniger, the Monroe County health director, acknowledged that he found the notion of hundreds of people surging into hospitals "overwhelming." But he said the Rochester area would benefit greatly from the extensive planning done on its nine-county hospital mutual-aid plan, which he called the best in the state.
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