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, ...

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 Joint Commission has announced new requirements for leadership accountability in hospital and critical access hospital emergency management. The new requirements, effective Jan. 1, 2014, call for ...

William Meier, a selectman from Somers, says that Johnson Memorial Hospital has been a pillar of the community from the time he was growing up. The 92-bed hospital, located in nearby Stafford, has ...

The workshop covered disaster management, fire safety, evacuation strategies, psychosocial support for patients and staff, ...

Franklin Hospital and the Franklin County Office of Emergency Management & Communications (OEMC) have partnered to launch the ...

The tarmac at Owensboro-Daviess County Regional Airport swarmed with firefighters and emergency responders Tuesday afternoon as several agencies participated in an exercise testing their response to a ...

Senior Lecturer, Horizon Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the Sydney School of Health Sciences, University of Sydney Faran Naru is the recipient of a Macquarie University Research ...