The terror attacks of September 11, 2001, changed many things. The notion of honor in conflict was lost forever, as was the separation of targeting military and civilian assets and people. On that day, terror became the weapon of choice of radical regimes and movements. And our thinking toward emergency preparation changed forever, as well.
Nowhere is the new emergency preparation paradigm more evident than in the Kaiser Permanente hospital and emergency facility in Walnut Creek, Calif. A $25-million, 32,000-square foot expansion and renovation of the facility’s emergency room was completed several months ago.