Good Samaritan laws offer liability protection to doctors and others offering care in a medical disaster, he said. People need to understand if leases on building space include clauses that cover facilities destroyed by a tornado. They need to develop tracking systems to identify the ventilators and other equipment that accompany patients transferred to other hospitals. Health care communities need to assess morgue capacity. The disaster brought lessons for all trauma hospitals, like the need to have multiple helicopter landing pads, Douglas said. "It was two weeks before we were able to identify this young man," Douglas said. He became one of more than 50 John and Jane Does at the hospital. A young man at a community theater was stuck in the head by a concrete block, breaking his jaw and distorting his features so his parents couldn't recognize him. In 12 hours, 22 lifesaving surgeries were performed, including a girl impaled on a steel rod. "This entire driveway was covered by stretchers and injured people," Douglas said.ĭouglas spoke from the Missouri hospital, his picture shown at the top of a screen that documented not only the disaster's plus-200 mph winds but the force of the emergency response. He showed a picture of an empty hospital entrance at Joplin's Freeman Hospital West, part of a health care system where Douglas is general counsel. "It was sitting churning up everything in sight," he said of a storm that killed 161 people and destroyed one hospital. Dwight Douglas described the tornado Pulido witnessed. As part of a preparedness program that drew more than 400 people, H. Pulido, who administered care to wounds, assessed patients and started IVs, was honored Tuesday at a Master the Disaster workshop in Camarillo hosted by the Ventura County Emergency Medical Services Agency. He's also part of a Ventura County Medical Reserve Corps that responds to medical emergencies. "We started pulling the most critical patients to the lobby because they were the ones who were going to be transferred," said Pulido who works at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura. So he assisted an ambulance crew, rode with them to the hospital and started doing whatever needed to be done. Ed Pulido, an emergency room nurse from Ojai visiting Joplin for two family graduations, wanted to help. Period.Patients were everywhere in the hospital, on the floor, slumped in chairs, sprawled on gurneys.Ī tornado nearly 1 mile wide ripped through Joplin, Mo., in May 2011. I will not take a family member to this hospital if it can be avoided there will NOT be a new grad, inexperienced RN providing my family members care. In over 30 years in the medical field, this was the only hospital I worked at that would hire new grads to work in critical care areas, such as ER, ICU, etc. Very poor pay scale for experienced RN's. Verbal abuse by co-workers and doctors was also a typical occurrence and an accepted behavior. Managers cronies got better assignments and undeserved recognition. Favoritism was an operating standard throughout the hospital. That made me very uncomfortable and also made me wonder what was said about me when I wasn't around. Management poorly trained and unprofessional heard the manager in PACU and the GI manager talk badly about co-workers. I left after ten months.Įxtremely run down and dirty behind the scenes patients and their families would be appalled. Within weeks of being hired, I realized this was a horrible place. I would stop working as an RN before I would consider going back to work at Freeman Hospital.
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