By Art Mathisen, special to The Conway Daily Sun
CONWAY — Memorial Hospital uses a color code system to alert staff of events that require a specific and often extraordinary response. One code calls a response team to address a patient with cardiac arrest. Another code means there is a fire. Several other codes allow staff to know something outside of normal day-to-day operations is occurring.
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