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.

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

In a bid to enhance hospital disaster preparedness, several Maharashtra Public Health Department officials attended a workshop at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in ...

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