Healthcare providers can now employ a powerful new tool in their efforts to protect patients, staff members and visitors from potential natural and man-made disasters. Readiness Associates has unveiled its “Healthcare Facility Emergency Preparedness Self-assessment,”...
Getting ready for disasters saves $6 for every $1 spent If someone told you that setting aside a dollar today would likely save you six dollars down the road, you’d probably do it, right? Well, that’s the payoff for emergency preparedness, according to a recent study....
The chief operations officer of Readiness Associates, which helps organizations prepare for and respond to man-made and natural disasters, will speak about emergency preparedness at a health care conference next month in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bruce Brauninger will...
Healthcare organizations that fail to comply with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Emergency Preparedness Final Rule not only put patients, staff and visitors at risk, they also face financial ramifications that could include thousands of dollars...
As we cross the threshold into yet another hurricane season – one that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts could produce as many as four major storms – the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) warns that the U.S. remains woefully...
A state that has experienced more than its share of recent disasters received a financial boost in the quest to protect its long-term care facilities (LTCFs) from future catastrophic events. Georgia, hit by Hurricane Irma in 2017 and Hurricane Michael in 2018 and by...
In a scathing report released in early November, Democrat members of the Senate Committee on Finance criticized the preparations for and the responses to a pair of 2017 hurricanes. The report, “Sheltering in Danger,” examined the impact of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma...
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...
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