Subjects: MAV, PSF, FVT
Media Invitation - Fire disaster simulation to put first responders and healthcare workers to the test
TORONTO, Feb. 19, 2019 /CNW/ - Are Ontario's hospitals prepared for a large-scale disaster that could disrupt a major city and overwhelm the healthcare system? On February 26, a realistic simulation exercise will test the ability of healthcare and emergency response workers to deal with a fictional threat to hospital resources.
The emergency scenario is intended to show healthcare and EMS professionals how to manage the effects of a disaster, as well as demonstrate how college students can be utilized to staff clinics for non-urgent patients. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre will be testing their Code Orange and Surge response while other healthcare workers are participating in clinical practice scenarios.
The simulation, co-directed by Dr. Laurie Mazurik of Sunnybrook and faculty from Centennial College, involves a fire in an apartment block with a nursing home, mental health unit and daycare. Participants will include volunteer physicians, nurses, respiratory technologists, pharmacists and social work staff from a variety of hospitals: Sunnybrook, Scarborough General, Lakeridge Health, Michael Garron Hospital, University Health Network and St. Michael's.
Centennial College's Morningside Campus will simulate a live hospital for the exercise. More than 300 students will role-play, as well as work as non-urgent clinic personnel. Students from Centennial's paramedic, collaborative BScN nursing (with Ryerson and George Brown College), practical nursing, pharmacy technician, personal support worker, police foundations, pre-service fire, developmental services and social service worker programs, along with University of Toronto medicine students, will work alongside healthcare professionals in this realistic simulation. Community partners such as Toronto Police Division 43 constables and Centennial alumni will be supporting the student learning.
Media are invited to witness this unique exercise and speak with participants.
Follow all the disaster action at #CentennialMockD.
Date: | Tuesday, February 26 |
Time: | 8:30 am to 1:30 pm for the live exercise and debrief |
Location: | Centennial College, Morningside Campus |
755 Morningside Ave. at Ellesmere (just south of Hwy 401), | |
Scarborough ON |
SOURCE Centennial College
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