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Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
3 November 1893. Explosion of dynamite cargo on the steamship Cabo Machichaco, in at the port of Santander, Spain, with more than 2,000 injured. [14] 581. 16 April 1947. Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City; over 5,000 were also injured. 575. 4 June 1989. Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union.
List of hospitals in Pennsylvania. UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, the largest hospital in Pennsylvania with 1,577 beds and 77 operating rooms, October 2015. Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest in Allentown, the third-largest hospital in Pennsylvania and largest hospital in the Lehigh Valley, with 877 beds and 46 operating rooms, July 2008.
Outlying islands. Lists of hospitals in outlying islands of the United States include: Baker Island, none currently, uninhabited. Howland Island, none currently, uninhabited. Jarvis Island, none currently, uninhabited. Johnston Atoll, none currently, underground hospital during World War II (1939–1941) Kingman Reef, none currently, uninhabited.
Steamboat sank due to boiler explosion; fatalities estimated. Deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history 1,021 1904 PS General Slocum: Accident – shipwreck: East River near New York City: Steamship sank due to fire on board. Deadliest maritime disaster in New York City, and deadliest in city's history until 2001. 1,000–2,000 1893
Code Brown[edit] On February 21, 2007, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada issued a Code Brown for a potential spill. According to the wiki article, a Code Brown usually denotes external disaster, but I think hazardous spill should be added to that list.
This is a list of hospitals in the U.S. state of New York. The hospitals are listed by the most recent hospital name with the name of the health system, county, city, date the hospital first opened, and most recent number of beds, when known. For defunct hospitals, the closing date is included, when known.
List of natural disasters by death toll. Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life ...