On Tuesday, May 5, 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 exercises 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 CRH Emergency Services team members learn how to transport and triage patients in a simulated mass-casualty event into CRH emergency care from military vehicles and personnel. In addition, a brief “rehearsal” session for the drill will take place during the mid-morning hours of May 1 on the hospital campus. These exercises are simulations only, and will not affect real patient care.

Military personnel will transport role-playing patient actors 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 formal exercise will occur between 10 a.m. and Noon on May 5. Training scenarios and supplies will be visible on the hospital campus.

*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.