Kishwaukee Community Hospital administrators held another press conference Friday morning to discuss the events of the previous night.

The technology available at Kishwaukee Community Hospital played an important role in patient care after the Cole Hall Shooting.

Dr. Roger Maillefer, Chief of Staff and Surgeon on Call, was very pleased with the state-of-the-art technology the hospital had to offer, he said.

KCH was operating with a new facility as of October 2, 2007.

Among the new equipment was a portable X-ray machine.

“That really facilitated me as a surgeon taking care of these patients, because I could look at the X-ray immediately upon its being done- I didn’t have to wait for it to go to another place to be processed, and that allowed the helicopter people to be told, ‘this patient is cleared, get them on the gurney, and get them outta here,'” Maillefer said.

The hospital staff’s training backed their precise performance as they faced the event.

“There was never a question at our facility of ‘where is the equipment?’ In responding to certain needs, our nurses knew exactly what I needed and where I needed it,” Maillefer said. “Perhaps the layperson thinks that we’re frantically running around: we’re not; we’re trained for this, we prepare for this, we’re calm, we know what we need to do, we do it.”

“Once the job is actually done is when we sit back and start thinking about what had occurred, and I think that everything, how new it still is in our minds, I don’t think we’ve had time to reflect on that yet,” said Kulisz.