New Hampshire is divided into 15 Public Health Regions, which are served by local partnerships. Greater Monadnock Public Health Region (GMPHR) represents a largely rural and forested portion of the...
Health Care System Preparedness
The capacity and capability of healthcare institutions to respond to an increased number of patients and/or an increased level of serious injury or illness. Activities may include the ability to respond to a mass casualty situation, in which emergency and healthcare personnel may otherwise be overwhelmed by the number and/or severity of people injured or killed, or the ability to provide mass care for increased numbers of injured or ill people. Examples of events that require healthcare system preparedness and mass casualty/mass care planning include bombings, firearm attacks, and mass transportation accidents. For more information, please visit the CDC page on mass casualty event preparedness and response.
The 56,698-acre Qualla Boundary (a geographic region next to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina) is home and ancestral land to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI...
More than 70 US cities participate in the Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI), which is funded by CDC to develop programs that ensure medication is available to a city's entire population within 48...
Hospitals rely on an immense infrastructure to provide patient care and a hygienic environment. Wisconsin's 136 hospitals use an estimated 300 to 350 gallons of water per bed per day. Much of that...
A robust and extensive guide describes mass casualty planning in the essential areas of emergency medical services, hospital/acute care, alternative care settings, palliative care, and legal/ethical...
A NIMS-based approach provides a framework to establish an acute care center (ACC) for a bioterrorism event, but much of the information could easily be extrapolated to a pandemic situation. The...
Research conducted by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) found that vulnerability to sexual violence increases during and following a disaster. During and after Hurricane Katrina,...
Public health emergencies involving large numbers of ill or injured people place significant strain on the healthcare system's ability to respond. In mass care situations that affect a large region...
The importance of caring for children plays a significant role in emergency planning; however, children's medical needs are often drastically different than the needs of adults. Children have...
Recent public health emergencies in the United States, such as the H1N1 outbreak and Hurricane Katrina, highlighted the important role pharmacists and pharmacies can play in reaching medically at-...
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