Floodwaters have engulfed large parts of New South Wales, with at least one person dead and almost 50,000 evacuated after days of heavy rainfall in a "one-in-500-year" flood event. The scale of the ...

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, ...

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 COVID-19 pandemic was most people’s introduction to the critical importance of hospital emergency preparedness. However, while it is strikingly clear that prolonged surges of patients occur during ...

A crush of patients with serious medical problems requiring admittance in recent days at John Peter Smith Hospital led its administrators on Tuesday to describe the mass of sick people in the ...

The multi-million dollar reimbursement was for costs incurred and damages received between January 2020 and May 11, 2023, under FEMA Disaster 4497 – Kentucky COVID-19 Pandemic Major Disaster.

A worker in Thailand clears a road after a major flood. Disasters can threaten the infrastrucutre, investment climate, and human capital that jobs depend on. Photo credit: Adobe Stock At the World ...