Marge, Martha, Marcia

Well it is Glenview but it isn't the Fire Department. Here we are stood in the ER Ambulance Bay at Glenview Hospital.
The three ladies above delivered an interesting and broad presentation on Emergency Preparedness within the Hospital. Discussions included the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS, of medical supplies) and Pandemic Flu. There was a breakdown of the structures they fit within at a local level, state wide and nationally.
Marge, Martha and Marcia had collective responsibility spanning from the overall hospital preparedness, liaison with partners (inc training and exercising) and of course management of the ER. There was no George Clooney in this one but 3 very knowledgeable ladies. We hope to send them some info on cascade messaging via SMS, Email and new technologies as they embark on this. They used high technology dummies to test med students. They also ran a major exercise involving mass casualties and self presenters... something we are all too aware may occur in a CBRN type incident. Again, lots more than what we have noted but drop us an email if you want to know more.