JULY 8 TH 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 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 : 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 ED 0023: Scene is formally declared safe from PD 0025: Second patient declared on-scene 0035: First patient is declared