Code Purple: Hostage Situation Emergency

A guide to managing hostage situations in a hospital setting through the use of automated tools.

Challenge

Hospitals' code purple incidents require a quick response and two-way communication between the staff of the hospital. A hostage situation requires an exchange of information regarding locations to avoid, and a number of those affected. These life-threatening situations are tense, and communication is necessary to ensure staff and patients remain calm.

Solution

SimplyDigital Hospital offers the Code Purple use case, a process which ensures all required staff are informed of a hostage situation. Using this solution, hospitals can launch alerts to all staff to ensure that the incident is handled without issue.

Hostage situation automation mainly takes the form of launching pre-defined emergency plans with built-in communications. These plans streamline and organize communicating with staff, patients, and all other key stakeholders.

Steps to Success

  1. Send alerts to all staff to ensure they avoid the emergency areas.
  2. Launch pre-defined emergency response plans.
  3. Provide the tools to text in relevant information that could help the authorities handle the incident.

Best Outcome

Use case benefit
The safety of patients, guests and staff is maximized.
Use case benefit
The situation is well-monitored and handled with updated, dynamic information.
Use case benefit
Post-event analysis of the automated tools can be reviewed and plans adjusted to improve response.
Use case benefit
Further expand your ability to respond to emergency codes with medical emergency use cases. These use cases include code orange for external disasters, code black for bomb threats, and code blue for cardiac arrests.
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