Hospitals are in a unique position when disaster strikes. Predominately regarded as safe havens, hospitals are expected to continuously provide quality patient care and protection to patients, ...
The World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe has developed a free, downloadable hospital emergency response checklist. The tool, geared toward hospital administrators and managers, ...
Florida is known for many things, among them, hurricanes. Every year, Florida hospitals face devastating winds and storm surges, but these yearly disasters have helped them become some of the greatest ...
As the entry point for a hospital’s response to many types of crisis scenarios, emergency departments must develop disaster preparedness plans that go beyond natural disasters and utility failures to ...
(TNS) - Catastrophic fires, extreme weather and cyberattacks have increasingly shown the vulnerabilities of U.S. emergency management procedures and even sometimes the power grid, itself. But what if ...
Disasters — both natural and manmade — are a fact of life. Hospitals sometimes spend significant amounts of time and money preparing for situations they hope never arise, but know would make ...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the disparities in emergency and healthcare planning for vulnerable populations which will influence current and future resiliency initiatives for years to come.
Hospital Emergency Departments are at the forefront of disaster response. It is increasingly important to provide health care workers with the resources and support to achieve emergency personal ...
The COVID-19 pandemic was most people’s introduction to the critical importance of hospital emergency preparedness. However, while it is strikingly clear that prolonged surges of patients occur during ...
When Superstorm Sandy pushed a wall of seawater through South Brooklyn and up Ocean Parkway toward Coney Island Hospital, staff in the emergency room — less than a mile from the iconic boardwalk — had ...
A crush of patients with serious medical problems requiring admittance in recent days at John Peter Smith Hospital led its administrators on Tuesday to describe the mass of sick people in the ...
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