BENTON, IL – (William McPherson – Benton Gazette. Please click on the link above for the full story. here is an excerpt below.)
William McPherson, Gazette photo
Last Tuesday, at 9:15 a.m. the staff and medical personnel at Franklin Hospital, in Benton got to test their abilities to deliver urgent medical care under one of the worst possible scenarios—a simulated F4 category tornado.
The exercise briefing read, “At 0810 this morning Du Quoin, IL was struck by an F4 category tornado. Marshall Browning Hospital in Du Quoin, sustained significant damage requiring assistance by other hospitals in treatment of injured and immediate relocation of their inpatients.”
The idea was to treat the simulation as if it were a real emergency event, complete with a real-time control room and a briefing identical to what would have been released to local radio stations, online local news sources if such a disaster were to occur.
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