Breaking: Hospital Locked Down After Active Shooter Report, Leaving Staff to Reckon With Fear, Fractured Trust, Invisible Trauma, and the Long, Uneven Work of Healing After Safety Is Shattered From Within
In the immediate aftermath of the lockdown, the hospital did not look damaged in any obvious way. Walls stood clean, floors shined, equipment hummed as it always had. Yet something fundamental had shifted. The familiar rhythm of the place felt altered, as though every corridor carried an echo of what had happened. Staff returned to…