Health · Healthcare & Policy · 16 hrs ago
LUMC emergency department partly closes for disaster drill
Leiden University Medical Center will hold a major disaster response exercise on Wednesday, November 4.
Its emergency department will be partly closed from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
The department will still treat patients with specific serious emergencies, including severe heart problems, strokes, resuscitations and pregnancy complications.
The exercise will simulate a regional disaster with many people needing medical care, including people acting as victims.
It tests the hospital's plan for quickly switching from routine to crisis care and checks whether staff and services know what to do.
If demand for care in the region unexpectedly rises, regular patient care takes priority, and the exercise may be scaled back or changed.
Dutch hospitals are legally required to have a disaster response plan.
Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum will partly close its emergency department for three hours on Wednesday, November 4.
The closure will run from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
The department will remain open for patients with specified acute or serious conditions.
The hospital is holding a crisis drill to test its emergency plan for handling a large influx of casualties.
The drill will simulate a regional disaster, with people acting as victims.
- Who
- Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC).
- What
- It will partly close its emergency department during a crisis drill.
- When
- Wednesday, November 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
- Where
- The LUMC emergency department in Leiden.
- Why
- To test the hospital’s emergency plan and preparedness for a disaster involving many casualties.
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LUMC announced that its emergency department would partly close for a crisis drill.
The scheduled drill and partial closure will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
- Hospital
- Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum (LUMC)
- Location
- Leiden
- Date
- Wednesday, November 4
- Closure
- 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
- Plan being tested
- Ziekenhuis Rampenopvangplan (ZiROP)