Special report. Training for a hostage situation; dealing with the real thing: two case histories.
While fire and disaster drills are held regularly at most hospitals, conducting a hostage-taking drill is not. Yet, one hospital has come up with a detailed scenario for such a drill, which is described in this report. And the key ingredients of the drill seem to have been verified by a real-life hostage taking that took place at another hospital at the same time.
D004189:Disaster Planning; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods*; D016495:Police; D011329:Prisoners; D012637:Security Measures / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013781:Texas; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014922:Wisconsin