As Maryland homeland security officials paraded through the
"decon unit," set up for a demonstration outside the emergency
room doors at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Md.,
Joe Novello pointed out its features the way someone might show
off a new car.  "This is a completely self-contained trailer,"
said Novello, the hospital's security director, of the
decontamination unit. "It has a heating system and a water
bladder, so water can be pumped out. It has a generator and
decontamination showers separated by gender."  Outside, a man in
a HAZMAT suit posed, smiling, for photos.  The politicking
surrounding homeland security issues sometimes overshadows what
people like Novello -- and other hospital administrators in
Montgomery County, Md. -- have been plugging away at month after
month.  Five Heads Are Better Than One  In a move that's
comparatively rare -- especially given the competition for state
and federal homeland security grants -- Shady Grove Adventist
Hospital and four other hospitals in th