The voice over the intercom at Kalispell Regional Medical Center sounded chilling. "All visitors and staff use the emergency department doors only. All other doors are restricted until further notice.

Whether selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) reduces mortality among patients undergoing mechanical ...

Hospital room and surface decontamination has become an increasingly important point of focus for infection preventionists, but that wasn’t always the case. A manuscript published in the Annals of ...

The Harvard School of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Exercise Program offers a free Hospital Decontamination Self-Assessment Tool to help hospitals evaluate their decontamination ...

A free Hospital Decontamination Self-Assessment Tool is available from the Harvard School of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Exercise Program. The tool provides guidance for a ...

EXETER — The decontamination unit at Exeter Hospital was put to the test during a mock drill on Thursday afternoon in front of the facility's emergency department. Under the drill on Sept. 30, ...

Beaufort Memorial Hospital's Nasheem Heyward, left, and Coastal Carolina Hospital's Petty Hart, right, spray soap off of Hospitalman Recruit Caitlin Brown Wednesday afternoon at Beaufort Memorial ...

NASHUA – The medical staff and first responders ran around the parking lot, looking shockingly like astronauts. They raced back and forth in their full-length plastic suits and yellow rubber boots ...

-Emergency preparedness for potential chemical, biological and radiological decontamination. NORWALK, Calif., May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Norwalk Community Hospital is hosting the Los Angeles County ...

Participants in a 5k-run have just become victims of a chemical terrorist attack. A chemical mist blown through fans sprayed about 130 runners; they need to be decontaminated. This hypothetical ...

The city is so desperate to find space for the burgeoning homeless population that it’s housing downtrodden New Yorkers in a decontamination unit at a city hospital, The Post has learned. The unit, ...