Illini Group Hospital workers Dacon Scott, left, and Kristina Curtis work on an unidentified “sufferer” through the catastrophe drill. | Photograph courtesy of Blessing Well being
PITTSFIELD, Ailing. — Illini Group Hospital, Pittsfield Hearth Division, Pike County Ambulance, Pittsfield Police Division and Air Evac, performed a full-scale group response train on Thursday, Sept. 29 at Illini Group Hospital.
Melissa Helkey, emergency preparedness coordinator at Illini Group Hospital, mentioned the state of affairs for the train included an publicity by 11 people to a hazardous substance requiring triage and remedy from on-scene emergency medical personnel together with decontamination and remedy of sufferers at Illini Group Hospital’s Emergency Division.
“These workout routines be certain that all group well being personnel are ready within the occasion of an emergency,” Kathy Hull, administrator at Illini, mentioned in a press launch. “We thank our group well being companions for participating on this train and for all that they do every day to guard the well-being of our associates and neighbors in our communities.”
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