Hospitals

 

Hospitals are where people expect lives to be saved. That expectation can lower your guard, whether you are a patient, a visitor, or staff. A hospital is still a building with rooms, hallways, dead ends, and open areas where people can be trapped. Being closer to medical care does not mean help will reach you in the first minutes.

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Researchers using the same method identified 154 hospital-based shootings from 2000 through 2011 and 327 more from 2012 through 2024, a combined 481 events. In the first study, 91 were inside the hospital and 63 were on hospital grounds, with 235 people injured or killed. The most common sites then were the emergency department (29%), the parking lot (23%), and patient rooms (19%). In the later study, the most common sites were parking lots and outdoor areas (46%), hospital floors (18%), and the emergency department (18%). Excluding the shooters, 189 people were injured or killed from 2012 through 2024, including 81 killed. These counts include shootings on hospital property, not only FBI active shooter incidents.

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Bystander Active Shooter Education (B.A.S.E.) is built for that gap. The goal is a Bridge of Life: care from the point of injury until trained medical personnel can take over. Each phase of the course teaches skills that can prolong life with minimal supplies.

If you are a hospital or department administrator, contact us to schedule a meeting on adding Bridge of Life B.A.S.E. training to your schedule.