JULY 8TH 2014, “A DAY DISRUPTED”

DEACONESS OVERVIEW

• Approximately a 380 bed hospital• Level III Trauma Center• Stroke Accredited from JC and Washington State• CP Accreditation by SCPC and Washington State• Bariatric/Joint COE• Part of the Rockwood Health System• ~22 bed ER, at this time 50% smaller for renovation• ~30K ER Visits in 2013• 18 Operating Rooms• ED Construction: started April 2014-April 2015

TIMELINE

• 0000: Hospital Panic Alarms begin sounding at the Security desk

• At that same time a cell phone call is received by security alerting them of a shooting

• 0002: A call was made to 911• 0003: Units were dispatched• 0005: An overhead page was made at the hospital, a

Code Blue was called.• 0005: Staging was established for responding units

• 0008: I was at a meeting and visualized the dispatch message

• 0009: A call was made to the registration staff in DHEC alerting them to lock down

• 0009: I called my charge nurse in the ER• 0011: I called my co-chair of the EOP and alerted him• 0011: The ER responded to the Code Blue• 0012: Admin was updated on the situation• 0012: co-chair called the Safety officer who went to the

scene

• 0014: staff begin manning hospital entrances and DHEC entrances

• 0015: I arrived back at the hospital, other directors met in the ED

• 0016: Request for backboards was made, Trauma Activations announced

• 0017: RTF arrived to the patients and began moving a patient to ER

• 0020: Safety Officer on scene with PD and FD

0023: First patient arrives to ED0023: Scene is formally declared safe from PD0025: Second patient declared on-scene0035: First patient is declared