Posted on 04/22/2005 3:33:22 AM PDT by Flavius
Where I live you can get entrance to the hospital thru the Emergency room any time after midnight by simply going in the door, it even opens automatically. From there its pretty simple to go anywhere you like simply by waiting till no one is looking and entering the main part of the building. No guard on duty there at all, armed or otherwise.
Its pretty rural here.
Hospitals need to get some fire power just in case...
Nurse: "Good morning, Mr. Smith. How are we feeling? Would you like a .357 or .45 under your pillow today?"
I can't imagine in this day and age an urban or suburban hospital that doesn't have a security camera focused on all points of ingress. Shouldn't be too difficult to pick up the imposters entering the building at 2:00 a.m in the morning.
Right. Lots and lots of coincidences.
Ping
Lovely!
/sarc
Fake inspectors visit urban hospitals; feds investigate
WASHINGTON - Federal authorities are looking into three closely bunched incidents in which people posing as inspectors were caught nosing around hospitals in Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles.
No arrests have been made and there is no evidence to suggest the cases are linked or there is a tie to terror groups, federal officials said.
"We do not possess any specific intelligence that there is a terrorism nexus to these reports," Homeland Security spokeswoman Kathleen Montgomery said Friday.
But the department is monitoring the incidents through local law-enforcement authorities and FBI agents also have been called in, officials said.
The hospitals, which officials refused to identify, reported the cases in late February and early March to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, which evaluates 4,500 hospitals in the United States.
In the first instance, a man and a woman, well-dressed and in their mid-30s, showed up in the middle of the night at a Los Angeles hospital with badges that resemble those carried by commission inspectors. They left when questioned by the hospital staff.
Three days later, a bearded man in his 30s or 40s of either South Asian or Middle Eastern origin was confronted at a Boston hospital. He, too, departed when questioned.
On March 10, a middle-aged woman who identified herself as a commission inspector fled a Detroit hospital's maternity ward when confronted.
None of the commission's 350 to 400 surveyors was scheduled to visit the three hospitals on those days, Hill said.
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.23.2005
Dirty bomb material?
Try to think like a terrorist.
In view of the Marburg situation in Africa, where the
infection seemingly was spread in a hospital and people
then grew fearful of bringing their sick there, such a
scenario could only create distrust of our medical system
in the event of a bio attack.
Remember, TERROR is the Islamic fanatic's middle name.
Interesting! I work at a hospital and we got the warning about what to do if someone showed up, unannounced, but we weren't told the reason.
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