Paris, TN – – On Wednesday, October 23rd, West Tennessee Healthcare- Henry County Hospital, in coordination with Henry County Emergency Management Agency will conduct a full-scale mass casualty incident (MCI) training exercise.
Hospital officials said, “Our goal is to prepare ourselves to respond to such an incident. All participating agencies will use this goal to improve communication, evaluate capacities of a large-scale event, and provide an opportunity for the hospital and emergency responders vital training for a real mass casualty incident in a safe and controlled environment.”
This exercise will begin at 8 a.m. It will last an estimated two hours.
Local nursing students will act as role players in this scenario to simulate realistic issues and opportunities for improvement that responders would not have during a real incident.
This training exercise event will include the following response agencies:
West Tennessee Healthcare- Henry County Hospital
Henry County Emergency Management Agency
Henry County Emergency Medical Services- AMR
Henry County 911 Dispatch
Henry County Sheriff Department
Henry County Rescue Squad
Henry County School System
Henry County Health and Rehabilitation
City of Paris Police Department
City of Paris Fire Department
Tennessee Highway Patrol
This simulation is for responder training purposes only. This scenario includes a simulated Henry County Schools bus crash. For this training we will be using a bus provided by the Henry County School System. Officials said, “We have taken multiple safety precautions to keep all participants and responders safe. Again, this simulated bus crash is a mock drill for training purposes.”