Nurses from Adventist Health Feather River Medical Center in Paradise, California, saved patients’ lives Nov. 8 as flames from the Camp Fire wildfire engulfed trees in the hospital’s parking lot. According to NBC News, surgical nurse Nichole Jolly made what she...
Hurricane Florence slammed into the Carolinas and Virginia in September, forcing hospitals and long-term care facilities to evacuate and transfer patients. Less than a month later, an even more powerful Hurricane Michael hammered the Florida Gulf Coast, causing...
In her Sept. 12 presentation at a healthcare conference in Stateline, Nevada, the national field operations director of Readiness Associates cited some eye-opening statistics about trends in workplace violence. Kathleen Pearson noted that healthcare workers are 16...
It’s an alarming statistic: Fifty-two percent of all workplace violence incidents in 2014 occurred in the healthcare and social assistance industry, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Between January 2012 and September 2014, more than 100 healthcare...
Three years ago at a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in El Paso, Texas, a staff psychologist was shot to death by a former VA employee who then killed himself. In a statement after the incident, David Cox Sr., national president of the American Federation of...
According to a Harvard University-led study recently released by the New England Journal of Medicine, Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico’s healthcare system was especially catastrophic. Of the 4,600 deaths estimated by the study, “about one-third of the...
Over a period of a few days in late May 2018, a pair of deadly natural disasters served as powerful reminders that healthcare organizations must take emergency preparedness much more seriously. First, what was termed a “1-in-1,000-year” flood hit Ellicott City,...
Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information indicate that since 1980, 203 weather and climate disasters in the U.S. have resulted in $1.1 trillion in total damage costs. You know the old saying: An...
By Michael Boardman, CEO/Founder, Readiness Associates Natural and man-made disasters can have catastrophic, long-term impacts. Look no further than the devastation visited by Hurricane Irma upon Puerto Rico, where some residents have struggled for months without...
The time is now for thousands of healthcare organizations in the U.S. to fully engage in the stated requirements for Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and Suppliers Final Rule, which goes live on November 15th...
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