title: Revised fire safety system cuts emergency response time.
abstract: As Margaret R. Pardee Memorial Hospital, Hendersonville, NC. expanded, fire safety plans had to be reevaluated. With each new addition, fire safety responsibilities for hospital personnel multiplied and overlapped. Confusion resulted, and a revised, simplified, and coordinated fire safety system was devised. Seventeen false alarms within one year, caused by a faulty sprinkler system, gave hospital personnel ample opportunity to test the system and iron out unexpected problems.
mesh_terms: D004189:Disaster Planning; D005390:Fires / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D009657:North Carolina; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education*