May 24, 2021, Portland, ME – Readiness Associates (RA), a provider of full-service emergency preparedness and business continuity solutions, today announces Lionel Derriey as the most recent addition to its Advisory Board. Mr. Derriey has dedicated his career to...
Nation’s Military Health System Must be Ready for Disasters
The U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System, or MHS, includes 65 hospitals, 412 medical clinics and 414 dental clinics around the world that serve nearly 10 million active-duty personnel, military retirees and their families. MHS has a $50 billion budget and...
In the Wake of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico’s Healthcare System Remains in Turmoil
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...
Catastrophic Events Can Happen to You—Anytime, Anywhere
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,...
Disasters – to Prepare or Not. What are the Costs?
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...
Healthcare Facilities Confront Workplace Violence
A former patient enters a California veterans home and shoots and kills three caregivers. Just days later at an Alabama hospital, an employee is killed and a contractor wounded by a man who then shoots and kills himself at the scene. These two March 2018 incidents...
Why Your Business Might Not Survive a Disaster
Record wildfires scorched California, Hurricane Maria plunged Puerto Rico into the longest blackout in U.S. history, and Hurricane Harvey produced unprecedented rainfall amounts in Texas. All of those disasters occurred in 2017 alone. At a time when natural and...
New CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule Puts More Pressure on Health Care Organizations
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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