Try these three ideas in your disaster drills
Hospital Safety Connection, August 24, 2005
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We love to read stories about emergency drills because almost every one of them provides good ideas for other sites' disaster exercises.
For example, a drill held last week in Anchorage, AK, revealed these three wrenches to throw into your scenarios, as reported by the Anchorage Daily News:
1. Ask volunteer participants to flood the hospital switchboard with simulated calls from concerned relatives of patients
2. Have other volunteers call or show up at the hospital as reporters seeking information
3. Try to logjam medication dispensing centers--an official told that Daily News that 700 volunteers going through a medication site in two hours wasn't enough to truly stress the city's system
Anchorage's drill involved multiple scenarios, including an anthrax release at a restaurant and a plane crash that released an unknown chemical.
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