This week Valley Medical Center in Renton is preparing for a mass casualty incident that could result from a future earthquake.
On Tuesday, the hospital conducted a drill where they simulated receiving 25 patients after an earthquake in Maple Valley. Four of the patients required surgery. Another drill will take place on Thursday.She explained that the drill is testing the hospital’s ability to receive a large number of patients as well as communications between their emergency room and operating room staff.
“We are testing how we register those patients. How we receive them into the all the way through to get the care that they need, possibly the surgery that they need,” Modlin said. In Washington State, we have over 1,000 earthquakes a year. Thankfully, most of them are so minor we never feel them.. While there was no damage, the earthquake was felt by over 10,000 people from Olympia all the way to Vancouver Canada.This Thursday over 1.3 million Washingtonians will be participating in the 2023 Great Washington ShakeOut earthquake preparedness event.
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