{"id":13308,"date":"2026-02-21T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mercy-hospital-enters-lockdown-after-credible-bomb-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:36:23","slug":"mercy-hospital-enters-lockdown-after-credible-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mercy-hospital-enters-lockdown-after-credible-bomb-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy Hospital enters lockdown after \u2018credible bomb threat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=dbe5ac0f-df5d-515c-bc97-5034e335b3f2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1253\" alt=\"Mercy Hospital in Durango is one of more than a dozen CommonSpirit facilities across the state where Anthem members will not be able to receive in-network care if an agreement is not reached between the hospital network and insurance provider. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mercy Hospital in Durango is one of more than a dozen CommonSpirit facilities across the state where Anthem members will not be able to receive in-network care if an agreement is not reached between the hospital network and insurance provider. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mercy Hospital reopened its doors sometime after 5 p.m. Saturday after receiving a \u201ccredible bomb threat,\u201d sending the health center into lockdown and prompting police officers to stage outside.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital had previously received a bomb threat from an anonymous caller that was considered credible, and Durango Police Department was contacted in response.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Radford, Mercy Hospital spokeswoman, said the general hospital doors were closed after the hospital received the bomb threat in the 3 p.m. hour that prompted the hospital to contact Durango Police Department. Around 5:45 p.m., she confirmed the hospital had reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Only essential patients and employees were allowed into the building during the lockdown in accordance with security procedures, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Durango Police Department determined the threat was a \u201choax,\u201d according to Tom Sluis, city spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are calls similar to this taking place in other parts of the state,\u201d he said. \u201cLaw enforcement agencies are still taking adequate precautions and conducting all necessary investigations while the hospital is in lockdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-b5fe8c2e6ca1216493de316371c09185\"><a href=\"mailto:cburney@durangoherald.com\">cburney@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional hospital went into lockdown late Saturday afternoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,28,68,994],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-13308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-mercy-regional-medical-center","tag-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20864,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions\/20864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=13308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}