Statewide Healthcare Emergency Codes

(Panic button can be used in conjunction with these codes, if permitted by facility policy)
Originally published January 2005, revised June 2016

CODE RED Fire CODE Hazardous Material

Release
1. Rescue those in ORANGE
immediate danger (Internal/External) 1. Call 3-5111
2. Rescue anyone in
2. Activate the Fire Alarm immediate danger
Call 3-5111 3. Close all doors to spill area
3. Confine the fire by 4. DO NOT clean up spill,
closing Doors unless trained and
4. Extinguish/Evacuate equipped

CODE BLUE Cardiac Arrest/ CODE YELLOW Trauma Patient/

Medical Emergency Trauma Team

1. Call 3-5111 1. Call 3-5111

2. Summon help 2. Trauma Team reports to
3. Assess the person the Emergency
4. Ensure the crash cart is on Department
the way

CODE PURPLE Infectious Event CODE AMBER Infant/Child Abduction

1. Isolate the individual 1. Call 3-5111 and provide

2. Don appropriate PPE age of abductee
3. Call Infection Control 2. Notify Security
3. Cover all interior stairwell
doors, elevator areas, and
exiting doors
4. Immediately search the
entire unit
5. Protect the crime scene

CODE GREY Security/Team CODE SILVER Hostile Situation/

Person with a Weapon
1. Call 3-5111
2. Assist Security/Team 1. Call 3-5111
(Behavioral Health Team as 2. DO NOT enter the area
applicable), with managing 3. Notify the Police
and/or de-escalating the Call 911
situation 4. Secure the area pending
the arrival of Security/
Police

ACTIVE Person discharging a CODE GREEN Bomb Threat

firearm with intent to
SHOOTER harm or kill 1. Call 3-5111
2. Notify security
1. Call 3-5111 3. Screen the call and use
2. DO NOT enter the area the telephone checklist
3. Notify the Police/Call 911 4. Report suspicious items
to security

CODE TRIAGE-CLEAR The situation has been cleared

CODE TRIAGE CODE TRIAGE CODE TRIAGE CODE TRIAGE

ASSESSMENT STANDBY ICS LEVEL (I) ICS LEVEL (II)
Hospital Assessment Group Alert and warning Scaled incident operations Expanded (Full) incident
convened to establish announcement of situation or for all hazards event with operations. EOP in effect.
situational awareness, event with potential impact to probable impact. EOP in Principal assigned HICS Staff
determine need to pursue facility. Code Triage Group effect. Principal assigned respond to HCC; additional
Code Triage Activation. notified, no response to HCC. HICS Staff respond to HCC. pre-assigned positions
Department plans activated activated. Department plans
as needed. activated as needed.
Pre-activation levels

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