September is National Preparedness Month, which aims to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for emergencies. The American College of Healthcare Executives advises healthcare executives ...

Floodwaters have engulfed large parts of New South Wales, with at least one person dead and almost 50,000 evacuated after days of heavy rainfall in a "one-in-500-year" flood event. The scale of the ...

State officials argue that CarePoint’s safety-net hospitals are at risk of further financial deterioration and “have consistently maintained low days cash on hand, maintained negative operating ...

(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 ...

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 World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe has developed a free, downloadable hospital emergency response checklist. The tool, geared toward hospital administrators and managers, ...

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.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Since North Carolina Baptist Hospital opened a century ago ...

The multi-million dollar reimbursement was for costs incurred and damages received between January 2020 and May 11, 2023, under FEMA Disaster 4497 – Kentucky COVID-19 Pandemic Major Disaster.

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 ...