SWAT team training prepares hospital staff

Staff members at Marian Community Hospital in Carbondale, PA took part in an eye-opening training exercise involving members of the Lackawanna County SWAT team.

During two training sessions the SWAT team ran through the third floor of the hospital (which was empty) armed with simulator guns and shooting staff members with tiny paintballs, reports the Scranton Times-Tribune.

Before and after the drills employees from hospital security explained the dangers that any hospital can face including gang violence, patient violence against employees, violence from co-workers, and violence from relatives of patients or hospital employees.

"We are open to the public, and we don't know who comes in or what they have on them," security supervisor Mark Hemmler told the newspaper. "We want to be prepared for anything that could happen."