Hospital drill in Scranton serves as lesson in emergency preparedness

  • Source: WBRE-TV PaHomePage.com
  • Published: 09/19/2019 02:48 PM

There’s nothing that drives home a classroom lesson quite like hands-on learning. That’s what some college students got Thursday at a local medical facility but it wasn’t to experience what it’s like to treat patients. As Eyewitness News Reporter Mark Hiller explains, it was all about emergency preparedness. Rooms on the sixth floor of Commonwealth Health Regional Hospital of Scranton cleared out for a Code Yellow. But the evacuation wasn’t the real thing and neither were the patients and staff. They were actually a dozen criminal justice students at Keystone College participating in a mock drill. The scenario? A fire on the sixth floor. Sophomore Criminal Justice student Julia Blahut portrayed an immobile patient.



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