Case Study: Stony Brook Medicine achieves uninterrupted emergency communication during a campus-wide network outage with Rave Mobile Safety

Stony Brook Medicine Relies on Rave Alert During Superstorm Sandy

Stony Brook Medcine, a 603-bed facility with over 6,000 employees, faced a critical communications challenge during Super Storm Sandy when a campus-wide network outage lasted roughly 30–48 hours and multiple emergencies—including a gun-point robbery—required rapid, reliable outreach. To maintain contact with essential staff, the organization turned to Rave Mobile Safety, deploying Rave Alert and Rave Guardian to reach people despite outages.

Rave Mobile Safety worked with Larry Zacarese and Stony Brook Medcine to send targeted voice, text, and email alerts via Rave Alert when other systems failed, ensuring the right audiences received the right messages at the right time. As a result, the university and hospital significantly reduced the time required to notify the campus during crises and established a dependable emergency notification process for future incidents.

Stony Brook Medcine

Larry Zacarese

Assistant Chief of Police and Director of Emergency Management