Active shooter to test student and staff preparedness
WHAT:
Loyola University Health System and the Cook County Sheriff's Police have decided to conduct an emergency-preparedness exercise in Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. The exercise is intended to test the response of students and employees should an active shooter intrude upon the campus with an intent to do harm. Cook County Sheriff's Police will be on campus in full SWAT-team equipment. Signs will be posted around the perimeter of the medical school to inform passers-by that a “Code Grey Lockdown: Active Shooter Exercise” is in progress.
WHEN:
Wednesday, April 6, 2010
12:45 p.m.
WHERE:
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
2160 S. First Avenue
Maywood, IL 60153
MEDIA:
To attend, contact Nora Plunkett at (708) 216-6268.
Loyola University Health System (LUHS) is a member of Trinity Health. Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, LUHS is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and more than 30 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus, Loyola University Hospital, is a 569-licensed-bed facility. It houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald® Children’s Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the LUC Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb campus in Melrose Park includes the 264-licensed-bed community hospital, the Professional Office Building housing 150 private practice clinics, the Adult Day Care, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness, Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center at Melrose Park.