Fayette County Hospital recently held an active shooter drill as required by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. During Monday night’s Vandalia City Council meeting, Mayor Rick Gottman thanked Vandalia Police Chief Jeff Ray for being instrumental in the drill as well as the multiple agencies who participated.
The drill came coincidentally close to a recent incident at a St. Louis hospital where a patient was wielding knives, not guns, and after failing to obey orders to drop the knives, was shot by a hospital public safety officer.