Birmingham, Ala.'s Trinity Medical Center offers best practices it adopted to make transferring its patient population drama-free, according to an article on the Campus Safety Magazine article.

The facility completed the transfer of its patient population to its new location at Grandview Medical Center in October. The process required meeting patient safety needs, medical standards and staffing levels at two hospitals in addition to effective interagency and public communication.

At approximately 5:30 a.m., the first ambulance left Trinity.

As each ambulance approached a major intersection, a notification would be sent to Birmingham police stationed at the crossing. Officials would also send out a communication as each ambulance left Trinity, which let the nurses at Grandview know they’d have another group of patients arriving in 20 minutes.

Each notification was received in less than 30 seconds. The constant use of notification services also kept everyone, including members of the surrounding community, updated in real time.

Read the article.