Expert weighs in on preparedness at Boston-area hospitals after attacks in Tulsa, Los Angeles

BOSTON — The previous chief nursing officer at Boston Medical Heart joined Boston 25 Information on Monday morning to debate preparedness at native hospitals following current assaults at medical amenities in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Los Angeles, California.

Lisa O’Connor, who now works for FTI Consulting as a senior managing director within the well being options section, believes hospitals want to arrange for the potential for tragic occasions by conducting active-shooter coaching drills.

O’Connor’s name for such drills comes after a gunman accused of killing his surgeon and three different individuals at a Tulsa medical workplace blamed the physician for his persevering with ache after a current again operation and purchased an AR-style rifle simply hours earlier than the rampage, based on police. Then simply days later, a person walked right into a Los Angeles emergency ward and stabbed a physician and two nurses.

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