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 ...

CLIMATEWIRE | When the McBride wildfire erupted in New Mexico three years ago, David Merritt had a math problem. The fire was closing in on a Lincoln County hospital with 11 admitted patients, but the ...

In a recent TeleTracking blog, Paige Patterson, RN, a relief hospital manager at University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, discussed the value of having an automated capacity management system in ...

U.S. hospitals have improved their preparedness for disasters due to a focus on medical surge planning, according to a Federal Emergency Management Agency report. The 2012 National Preparedness Report ...

Hospitals told a major Senate panel that a $385 million bucket of annual emergency preparedness funding up for reauthorization should “be at least doubled” if the country’s healthcare system is to be ...

Northern Cochise Community Hospital is a small critical-access hospital, with 24 inpatient beds and six emergency room beds, in rural Willcox, Ariz., in the southeast corner of the state. We serve a ...

Important funding for a North Coast hospital has disappeared after the Trump administration ended a grant program intended to help communities prepare for disasters including earthquakes and tsunamis.

President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program threatens a fund used by state health systems from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic stronghold of California.

Visitors at Grand River Hospital on Tuesday were greeted with police tape, flyers and posted notices informing them of an active shooter exercise, “Shots Fired,” held in the hospital that afternoon.

Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital pushed its emergency room to the breaking point last week with a simulated mass casualty event to identify how it can improve its response to real-life crises in the ...