Disaster Drill at Self Regional Healthcare
Working in cooperation with the National Disaster Medical System, Self Regional Healthcare and Greenwood County EMS participated in a mock external disaster exercise late Friday afternoon.
The scenario included 10 patients, all played by members of the South Carolina State Guard, being dispatched from the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport where they had arrived from an area of Kentucky hit by tornadoes and flooding.
Self Regional activated its Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) to triage the incoming patients during the drill. The mock patients were registered and successfully transported to their appropriate triage locations.
James Clarke, Safety Coordinator at Self Regional, said the hospital conducts such exercises annually. A total of nine hospitals across the Upstate were participating in the disaster training Friday.
James Clarke (left), Safety Coordinator at Self Regional Healthcare, briefs Jim Kelley and other members of the hospital’s disaster unit on details of a mock external disaster drill in the hospital’s command center.
A member of the South Carolina State Guard plays the role of patient as he is registered in a triage area outside the Self Regional Emergency Care Center Friday afternoon. Debbie Strickland (right), Director of Operating Room, Post Anesthesia Care Unit and Central Sterile Processing waits to wheel him inside the ECC.