Hospitals Initiate ‘Code Yellow’ When Word Of Pile-Up Arrives By LIBBY CUDMORE • for AllOTSEGO.com Sunday’s 15-vehicle pile-up on I-88 caused the Schenevus Fire Department to smoothly implement its emergency-management plan. The same happened at the other end – at Bassett and Fox hospitals, where eight people injured in the crash were taken. Without knowing whether there would be “2 or 30” patients coming in from the I-88 crash, trauma surgeon Dr. Shelby Cooper called a “Code Yellow” to alert the…
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