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Possibly have gone. >> re-emphasize that point too. these things can be difficult -- they are difficult. but this event here was very well managed. it takes a lot of preparation for that to happen from the hospital standpoint, from the administration who supports the trauma program here, down to all different layers of physicians and some nursing staff and o.r. staff and x-ray staff. the whole hospital. i mean the whole hospital is completely involved to take people to clean the rooms up afterwards and that all went extremely well. >> there is a fourth victim in a sister hospital, is that corr...

Two admitted under stable condition. one was admitted under critical condition which has since been downgraded and will be in stable condition on the floor this afternoon. all of our patients are expected to have a full recovery soon and will soon be discharged from the hospital. i'd like to commend all of our e.r. physicians staff and facilities for the treatment and to being ready and take care of the critically injured patients. i'm very proud personally in our community should definitely be proud of the trauma program that we started from scratch and that we have built to help better serve...

Of these kids. this is a small town. >> well, that's true. and many of our employees, you know, have kids that go to franklin regional, and they were worried about their children today. i personally live three blocks from franklin regional. so, you know, as i was driving to work this morning, i was actually counting the ambulances that were driving past me and calling in, and saying, number four went by, number five went by, number six went by. and also looking out my windshield to look at what was happening with the air ambulance and calling it in. so we immediately established medical comman...

National attention? >> i think forbes has been on a journey the last ten years of raising the level of services they provide. we have a cardiac program, open heart and with implementation of the trauma program, it was to prepare for an event like this. we live in a community that can become relatively isolated with bridges and tunnels and all of that. sometimes a response can be delayed. the critical nature of these injuries demanded an acute response. from the paramedics, down to the trauma surgeons, i look at this and i say, this is what we've worked for. >> even prior to today, there were a...

Reinstruments tating the first phase, restoring second-phase and rehabilitation theurz phase. dr. rhee and lemole dealt with the initial injuries. the second-phase with restoring and improving the patient's clinical condition. this was partially because dr. rhee and his team have got an excellent general surgery program here at university medical center. last saturday the teams performed on congresswoman giffords a tracheotomy, placement of a feeding tube and repair of a fracture in the right eye. dr. lemole will be available for comments as to the details of the procedure. dr. rhee is at a pr...