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Table 1 Canadian hospital shooting-related lockdowns since 2000–2020

From: The Code Silver Exercise: a low-cost simulation alternative to prepare hospitals for an active shooter event

Date

City

Hospital

Location (number injured or killed)

May 20, 2003

Mission, BC

Mission Memorial Hospital [2]

Ward (2)

Aug 29, 2006

Penticton, BC

Penticton Regional Hospital [3]

Ward (2)

May 7, 2007

Ottawa, ON

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and ROTEL building [4]

ED entrance and ROTEL (0)

Apr 1, 2011

Belleville, ON

Belleville General Hospital [5]

Parking lot (1)

May 14, 2014

Ottawa, ON

The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus [6]

Hospital washroom (1)

Jun 2, 2014

Etobicoke, ON

Etobicoke General Hospital Parking lot [7]

Parking lot (1)

May 20, 2015

Guelph, ON

Guelph General Hospital [8]

ED wait room (1)

Nov 26, 2015

Calgary, AB

Foothills Hospital [9]

ED (1)

Jun 24, 2016

North York, ON

North York General Hospital [10]

Hospital Entrance (0)

Jan 12, 2017

Grand Forks, BC

Boundary District Hospital [11]

ED (1)

Jan 17, 2017

Calgary, AB

Foothills Hospital [12]

ED entrance (1)

Oct 27, 2017

Cobourg, ON

Northumberland Hills Hospital [13]

ED (2)

May 18, 2018

Fort Erie, ON

Douglas Memorial Hospital [14]

Urgent Care (2)

Nov 19, 2018

Kingston, ON

Kingston General Hospital [15]

ED (1)

  1. List of shooting-related hospital lockdowns as found on public news listings and media outlets [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]. The above list does not include hospital lockdown events related to unsubstantiated threats for an active shooter