On Tuesday, May 13, CRH Emergency Services will participate in a training exercise with Guardian Response* as part of a simulated disaster drill with the U.S. Army’s Muscatatuck Urban Training Center.
The purpose of the training exercise is to help the Army unit evaluate its ability to treat, triage, and transport patients from a simulated disaster area to a higher level of care at a civilian medical center. The exercises also help the CRH Emergency Department team members learn how to transport and triage patients into emergency care from military vehicles and a simulated mass casualty event. These exercises are only simulations and will not affect actual patient care.
Military personnel will transport role-playing actors portraying patients and mannequins (as simulated patients) by ground. Please note: there will be an increase in military personnel and vehicles on the hospital campus the morning of the drill.
The exercises will occur between 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
*Guardian Response is an Army entity that organizes exercises to validate an Army unit's ability to support state and local authorities in the event of a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attack.
