Facility Alerts EVENT Evacuation Fire/Smoke Alarm Hazardous/Materials Spill Mass Casualty Medical Decontamination Surge Capacity Utility/Technology Interruption Weather RECOMMEND PLAIN LANGUAGE Facility Alert + Evacuation + Descriptor + Location Facility Alert + Fire/Smoke Alarm + Descriptor + Location Facility Alert + Chemical Spill + Descriptor + Location Facility Alert + Mass Casualty + Descriptor (may have levels) + Location Facility Alert + Medical Decontamination + Descriptor (biological, chemical, radiological, or unknown) + Location Facility Alert + Surge Capacity + Descriptor (may have levels) + Location Facility Alert + Type of Service Interruption + Descriptor + Location Facility Alert + (Instruction) + Weather + Descriptor (National Weather Service Statement) + Location AlertUs MESSAGE Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement SAMPLE SCRIPTING Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, Immediate Evacuation, Unit 5 Central. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, Fire Alarm activation Unit 5 North. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, Chemical Spill, 1st Floor Laboratory. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, External Mass Casualty Incident, Emergency Department. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, Medical Decontamination event, Emergency Department. Decontamination Team please report to the Emergency Department. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, Internal Mass Casualty Incident, Emergency Department. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert IT Network Downtime, Implement downtime procedures for (patient charting, VoIP phones, and paging systems) Overhead: Attention, Facility Alert Tornado Warning. Move away from windows to interior portions of the building. The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Warning for the local area in effect until (time). EMERGENCY ALERTS Throughout Cone Health hospitals, emergency situations are communicated to staff, visitors and patients in plain language (no codes). Examples of the announcements are listed below. These announcements are made via overhead speakers, desktop computer screen messages and/or by direct communications to staff members via Cone Health’s Employee Notification System. AFFILIATE ORIENTATION MANUAL 12