Listening to the medical scanner - does anybody know what "Code Black" means in Boston? Googling it, but it means different things in different areas. "Bomb threat" is one of the possibilities though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_emergency_codes
Bomb threat
Code Black: Standard government reporting code. Markham Stouffville Hospital, University of Chicago Medicine,[citation needed] Ohio State University Medical Center,[original research?] Alberta, Quebec and Ontario hospitals, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital.[citation needed]
http://www.ehow.com/about_6360894_code-black_.html
Hospital Emergency Incident Command System
Codes are commonly used in hospitals to describe emergency situations. On the 2006 episode of "Grey's Anatomy," which is set in a hospital, "code black" indicated a bomb threat. In fact, this is in line with the Emergency Incident Command System, according to John Patrick, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at
Harvard Medical School and a doctor at Mount Auburn Hospital. Supported by the American Hospital Association, the Emergency Incident Command System is a template used by many hospitals for disaster management. In that template "black" is used to indicate a bomb threat.
Bomb Threat Codes
Bomb threats are known by different codes at different hospitals--not just "code black." The New Jersey Healthcare Emergency Codes system recommends bomb threats to be indicated by "code yellow," for instance. At the University of California San Diego Medical Center, bomb threats are "code 10." At Rhode Island Hospital/Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, they're "code green."
At Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, they're "code white." The list goes on and on; the term "code black" cannot be relied upon to indicate a bomb threat at any health care facility.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1591231&page=1
But at Mount Auburn Hospital in
Cambridge, Mass., Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Ohio State University Medical Center, code black would indicate a bomb scare, and at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla., a bomb scare would be a black alert.
http://www.massgeneral.org/police/about/operations/
Emergency Response
Code Blue/medical assistance
Code Red/evacuation
Code Pink
Code Black
Code Disaster
Code Silver
Hazardous materials incidents
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