The Kennedy Surgical Center in Sewell, N.J., recently held an active shooter drill with a Washington Township detective brandishing an AR-15 rifle, fired a warning shot into the ceiling and yelled for every person in the waiting room to stay put and shut up, according to an article on the Courier-Post website.
Hospital employees also are trained in the health system's disaster response through computer modules
"Because of the data we're seeing across the country, we do think it's a high enough risk that we want to make sure we have our associates trained," Kimberly Cavallaro, Kennedy's corporate director of safety and security, said in the article.
The training was focused at reinforcing Kennedy's "Ride, Hide, Fight" policy.
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