Citation

Kreinin A, Shakera T, Sheinkman A, Levi T, Tal V, Polakiewicz J. Disaster Med. Public Health Prep. 2014; 8(4): 288-292.

Affiliation

Tirat Carmel Medical Health Center affiliated with the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine,Technion,Israel Institute of Technology,Haifa Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Publisher Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/dmp.2014.53

PMID

24989110

Abstract

Tirat Carmel Mental Health Center was successfully evacuated in December 2010 during a ravaging forest fire in the nearby Carmel Mountains. A total of 228 patients were successfully evacuated from the center within 45 minutes. No fatalities or injuries associated with the evacuation occurred. We believe that the efficient functioning of the administrative and medical staff provides a replicable model that can contribute to the level of awareness and readiness of hospital staff members for natural and manmade disasters. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2014;0:1-5).

Language: en