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| Hospital Safety Center |
| June 2007 |
| Ingrained education readied workers for disaster |
| It's one thing to fine-tune your tornado plan after a solid drill. It's quite another to have the experience of living through an actual twister tearing through your building.
Although safety committee members would never want to test their storm strategy that way, the staff of Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, GA, learned firsthand how its plan worked after a tornado hit the facility March 1.
All of the patients and employees survived, says Susie Fussell, the hospital's vice president of nursing, who also is in charge of risk management |
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