ER1 Hospital
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ER1 (ER one) is a prototype hospital envisioned for the Washington D.C. area. The hospital is an all-scenarios facility, designed to handle, for example, a huge influx of contaminated patients from a terrorist attack.
[edit] Research hospital
Additionally, ER1 is a research facility, not just for doing research in the traditional hospital research sense, but as a prototype hospital, in order to research the very design of hospitals.
Design elements include mass decontamination, surge capacity, and preparedness for other emergencies such as an outbreak of bird flu.
[edit] Mission statement
Project ER One is the federally funded initiative to develop the design concepts, features, and specifications for an all-risks ready emergency care facility, optimized to be able to provide emergency medical care during acts of terrorism and epidemics and built to function fully as a hospital emergency department during daily operations.www.whcenter.org
