Hospital Decontamination Operations – Staffing
In my experience staffing is one of the biggest challenges hospitals face when trying to sustain a Hospital Emergency Response Team (HERT) program. Staff members get selected based upon their [...]
Hospital Decontamination Operations- Facilities
In my first post on Hospital Decontamination Operations, I mentioned that most facilities have some type of fixed decontamination room in close proximity to the Emergency Department (ED). As they [...]
Hospital Decontamination Programs – Challenges and Solutions
I first began identifying issues hospitals had in common relative to hazardous materials preparedness after I led the development of the course Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents at [...]