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Paramus N J, NJOHSP and the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs completed a seminar for the Paramus Veterans Memorial Home on February 5. The seminar focused on response and recovery operations to prepare residents, administrators, staff, vendors, and visitors in the event a hostile intruder with weapons enters the nursing home facility.
The 38 participants from federal, State, county, and local government agencies learned about the facility’s emergency operations plan for responding to active shooter incidents. NJOHSP Homeland Security Exercise Coordinator Brian Onieal discussed the core capabilities from the National Preparedness Goal, exercise objectives, and the methodology used in the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation program model.
The seminar continued with an explanation of the “Run, Hide, Fight” strategy used in response to an active shooter incident. The exercise design team included military administration personnel, nursing home administrative staff, professional nurses, facility managers, and memorial home department heads, as well as the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, Bergen County Office of Emergency Management, and the Paramus Police Department.
Somebody paint that apostrophe off the sign. There is more than one veteran there.