The Central Peninsula Hospital will be involved in a multi-agency mock emergency drill on March 20th and 21st centered in Homer.
CEO Bob Letson of the South Peninsula Hospital…
Letson: “We’ll exercise the hospital’s emergency management plan, evacuation plan, and the employee community readiness. The exercise will include mass casualties, mass fatalities, partial evacuation and creation of an alternate care site.”
Volunteers are being used as victims for the drill and the alternate care site will be Central Peninsula Hospital.
Borough Mayor Mike Navarre spoke about the collaboration at Tuesday night’s assembly meeting saying he wanted to let people near the hospital know so there is no panic with all the activity.
Navarre: “Provides CPH with the opportunity to participate and test our emergency operations plan, in addition to satisfying mandatory annual drill requirements. The long and short of it is they’ll be helicoptering in, from Homer, victims I guess in a mock disaster, mudslide into Homer hospital that disables the hospital and the ability for them to respond.”
Black Hawk Helicopters were mentioned as a possibility for the drill and may be seen in the area.
For more information on that drill, you can visit the South Peninsula Hospital website.