DHS/HHS coordinating council calls for enhanced vigilance after Paris terrorist attacks

Hospitals are encouraged to review and exercise their security plans following Friday’s terror attacks across Paris, according to leaders of the public/private council that coordinates health care and public health sector preparedness activities for the departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services. “Incidents like this give us another opportunity to review our response plans with our employees for situational awareness, maintaining vigilance for behaviors, objects and activities that depart from the norm of their experience, that are out of place for the area, that prompt suspicion, or that otherwise raise safety or security concerns,” said leaders of the department’s coordinating council for the health care and public health sector. For more information and related preparedness resources, see the DHS notice.