Haiti EM Rescue Team
- 3/22/2010
- Author: Kristine Miller
- Category: EC News Blog
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The earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, shattered foundations, toppled buildings, killed tens of thousands, and tore the earth asunder. A team of 27 doctors, nurses, and emergency specialists from The Mount Sinai Medical Center and other New York City hospitals arrived in Port au Prince eight days later and applied their emergency management and medical experience to deal with broken bones, amputations gone bad, and an astounding range of other injuries—all under often primitive and sometimes dangerous conditions.
The team credits their years of drills and planning for emergency preparedness in a hospital setting with their onsite success in activating an incident command structure and organizing the relief operation quickly and efficiently.
You can read the entire exciting story in the April 2010 issue of Environment of Care® News, and hear team members speak at the 2010 Annual Emergency Preparedness Conference: Emergency Preparedness Compliance 2010, April 8-9, 2010, in Washington, DC.
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