NORWALK -- In preparation for a catastrophic event at Norwalk Hospital, security stakeholders there collaborated with the city's first responders recently for a series of emergency scenario drills.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Three years on, the hospital continues to refine emergency response, training and infrastructure to ensure staff and patient safety in future disasters.

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.

(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 ...

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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 ...

LINN COUNTY, Iowa (KWWL) -- Essential workers in the medical and law enforcement field have received critical donations of personal protective gear from private businesses. Mercy Medical Center in ...