Photos: Mass Casualty Exercise at Valley Medical Center

Registered nurses Tony Huynh, left, and Hazel Cortes decontaminate a “patient,” dummy, during a Mass Casualty Exercise at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, May 16, 2024. Emergency workers donned hazmat suits, complete with cooling vests to beat the heat, outside of the emergency room at Valley Medical Center to help triage a number of “patients” during a Mass Casualty Exercise.

Valley Medical typically does two to three mass casualty exercises yearly, some without the hazardous material component. About 100 emergency workers from multiple departments, including emergency, radiology, language services, social work and members of the Red Cross participated in the training. Jennifer Navarro, left, therapy tech, and Mary Jane Gomez, right, medical unit clerk, prepare a “patient” dummy, during a Mass Casualty Exercise at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, May 16, 2024.

Jude Finn, senior nuclear medicine technologist, uses a Geiger counter to check a “patient” during a Mass Casualty Exercise at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, May 16, 2024. Dr. Jennifer Tong, chief experience officer for Santa Clara Valley Healthcare and the director of disaster operations team, records emergency workers with her phone during a Mass Casualty Exercise at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, May 16, 2024.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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