An active shooter is defined as an individual who is actively
engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in the hospital
or on the hospital campus. In most cases active shooters use a
firearm(s) and display no pattern or method for selection of
their victims. In some cases active shooters use other weapons
and/or improvised explosive devices to cause additional victims
and act as an impediment to police and emergency responders.
This report was published by the Annals of Emergency Medicine
(Volume 60, Issue 6, December 2012, Pages 790–798.e1) and
was presented, in part, at the Society for Academic Emergency
Medicine annual meeting, May 2012, Chicago, IL.
The report is the result of a study on workplace violence in
health care settings and characterizes US hospital-based
shootings from 2000 to 2011. For more information or to purchase
the full report, go to:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196064412014084
July 2012 – For emergency managers, events such as these
are mass casualty events. There will be a regional response
from all first responders, police and emergency medical
technicians. Hospitals will need to gear up to receive
victims, the dispatching of patients to multiple hospitals will
need to be orchestrated by a Hospital Control entity. In
this case the event happened late at night. Command staff
are not present and it is important that those on duty have the
training and knowledge to respond to a larger event and initiate
proper command and control procedures.
This sample plan is provided courtesy of Victor Valley Global
Medical Center. The document outlines an emergency response
plan to alert hospital staff that an active shooter appears to be
actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in
the hospital or on the campus.
This sample plan provides guidance in the event an
individual is actively shooting persons in the hospital or on the
campus. This emergency response plan was developed to alert
hospital staff that an active shooter appears to be actively
engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in the hospital
or on the hospital campus.
Patients and visitors are likely to follow the lead of employees
and managers during an active shooter situation; this flyer
offers guidance on how to respond when an active shooter is in
your vicinity.
An emergency event which threatens the safety of patients,
employees, staff, visitors and/or hospital operations may require
the lockdown of the Hospital. This sample lockdown guidance
document covers entry and exit considerations and also
includes an event decision-making tree.
This resource, the 2012 Edition of the “New York City Police
Department’s Active Shooter:Recommendations and Analysis
for Risk Mitigation” was released in the wake of
the shootings in Newtown, CT. This edition includes an
updated analysis and compendium of active shooter incidents,
incorporating 43 incidents that have occurred since the
release of the 2010 Edition.
Recent active shooter attacks have illustrated the
importance of procedures, systems, and training designed to
mitigate the risks from active shooters. The NYPD
developed mitigation recommendations based on analysis of
past active shooter attacks and careful review of previous
studies. These mitigation recommendations, which are tailored
to building security personnel, are detailed in Part II of
this book.
Recent active shooter incidents have had some influence on the
findings in the NYPD’s statistical analysis. Where
this influence resulted in significant changes, the NYPD
included a comparison between the 2010 and 2012
findings.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in partnership with
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the International
Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), has launched a Countering
Violent Extremism (CVE) Training Resource web portal on the
Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN). The purpose is to
provide federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and
correctional law enforcement with the most current CVE training
materials, case studies, analytic products, and other resources.
The materials on the portal are restricted for law enforcement
training use only and will contain unclassified/FOUO/LES
information.
To request access to the Joint CVE Portal
click here (make sure to complete the email with your
business information).
