What is the definition of a Casualty Collection Point (CCP)?

• A. A location that may or may not be staffed, where casualties are assembled for evacuation to a MTF
• B. A location where ambulances are serviced
• C. A triage area within a hospital
• D. A training site for medics

Answer: (A)

Casualty Collection Point is the place where casualties are gathered from the incident scene or forward care and kept long enough to be organized for evacuation to a Medical Treatment Facility. Its purpose is to assemble and coordinate transport to the next level of care, rather than to deliver definitive treatment. It may be staffed or unstaffed depending on the situation, but the key idea is grouping patients for evacuation, not servicing ambulances or providing hospital-level care. This differentiates it from a hospital triage area, which is inside a facility and focuses on sorting patients for treatment, and from a training site or an ambulance service point, which serve different roles.