COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Council Bluffs hospitals and first responders are preparing for the worst, so they know what to do if it ever happens.
CHI Mercy and Methodist Jennie Edmundson hospitals engaged in a critical disaster drill designed to improve readiness for a mass casualty event.
They spent the morning treating mock victims, who came in with a variety of serious injuries caused by chemical exposures. Nursing students simulated the injuries while staff practiced decontaminating them…