Training for tragedy
A volunteer playing the part of a shooting victim steps out of an ambulance while EMS and Confluence staff assist her during a drill on Saturday aimed at improving the response to any active shooter or mass casualty incident in Grant County.
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Volunteers and other exercise participants enter the Confluence clinic in Moses lake. The tags the mock victims are wearing indicate the severity of their simulated injuries for the purpose of triaging patients during the exercise.
Health care staff review records and make decisions during a training exercise on Saturday. The exercise was set up to help area first responders and medical providers ensure they were ready for any potential mass casualty incidents such as a mass shooting.
Medical staff treat a volunteer acting the part of a patient during Saturday’s training exercise.
As mock patients were treated for their simulated injuries, Life Flight was on hand to transport them to Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee if their situation called for it during the exercise.
MOSES LAKE/WENATCHEE – Passers-by may have seen a flurry of activity at the Confluence Health Moses Lake Clinic and Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee this past Saturday as first responders and medical providers held a full-scale active shooter drill, according to a joint press release from Samaritan Healthcare and Confluence Health.
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