Community-wide Plain Language Codes
Plain Language
Condition
Initial Notify
Fire Alert (followed by
location)
Fire Alert Confirmed
(followed by location)
Code Team (followed by
location)
Fire alarm received
Public Safety - X13
Actual fire condition
Public Safety - X13
Adult cardiac/respiratory
emergency
Page Office Stat – X57828
Code Team Pediatric
(followed by location)
AMBER Alert (followed by
infant, child, adolescent, then
age)
Assistance Needed … STAT
(followed by location)
Critical Security Incident
(followed by location)
Pediatric cardiac/respiratory
emergency for any area except ED
Taken without authorization or
suspected abduction.
Page Office Stat – X57828
Behavioral/Uncontrolled person
incident
Critical Security Incident (weapon,
bomb threat, active shooter)
Public Safety - X13
Command Center Activated(Staff to implement disaster
plans and leadership report
to Hospital Command Center
[HCC])
All Clear
Disaster (Internal or community,
natural or manmade)
Page Office Stat – X57828
Situation Resolved
Public Safety - X13 or Page
Office Stat – X57828
Public Safety - X13
Public Safety - X13
April 7, 2015
Other Codes – Not Part of Community Consensus
Since Not Used for Overhead Pages for All Hospitals
Plain Language
Condition
Initial Notify
Utility Alert: followed by
system
Stroke Team- followed by
location
Problem with infrastructure
utility or IT system or the like
Patient stroke event
Public Safety - X13
OB Team- followed by
location
Critical imminent birth event
(outside maternity unit or
critical baby delivery
Non-life threatening medical
emergency patient or nonpatient in public areas. For
life threatening events use
Code Team(s) language
Community Point of
Dispensing (Meds) Activation
Page Office Stat –X57828
Myocardial Infarction Event
Page Office Stat –X57828
Pediatric Trauma Event in ED
Page Office Stat –X57828
Trauma Patient Going
Directly to OR
Trauma Patient in ED
Burn Patient (meets specific
criteria)
Burn Patient (meets specific
criteria)
Page Office Stat –X57828
MERT - followed by
location
Hospital Point of
Dispensing Activation followed by location
MI Team - followed by
location
Pediatric Trauma Team –
followed by location
Level I Trauma Alert
Level II Trauma Alert
Adult Burn Team - followed
by location
Pediatric Burn Team followed by location
Page Office Stat –X57828
Public Safety - X13
Page Office Stat –X57828
Page Office Stat –X57828
Page Office Stat –X57828
Page Office Stat –X57828
April 7, 2015