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Most ED managers are prepared to respond to a disaster in their communities, but what do you do when your hospital is the disaster? An F3 tornado struck Americus, GA, after 9 p.m. on March 1, 2007, and Sumter Regional Hospital was directly in the path of harm.
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A growing number of specialists are negotiating hard for payment for taking ED calls. If you're involved in such negotiations, it helps to know what the other "side" is looking for.
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The Graham School of The University of Chicago has introduced a master's of science in threat and response management program, an interdisciplinary course of study in emergency preparedness.
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Do you know the main reasons your staff would be reluctant to report to work during a pandemic? Do you know how many of your staff will come to work if a pandemic strikes your community?
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When Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, GA, was severely damaged by an F3 tornado, one thing administrators didn't have to worry about was keeping their web page updated with disaster information.
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After an F3 tornado severely damaged Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, GA, and led to an evacuation of all patients, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, GA, was designated as one of the accepting hospitals. During the evacuation, Phoebe Putney accepted 45 patients, which included inpatients and emergency patients from Sumter Regional.
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When patients were evacuated from Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, GA, after an F3 tornado hit on March 1, 2007, a temporary treatment center was set up next to the shelter area inside the town's First Baptist Church.
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The amount of funds allocated for emergency preparedness in President Bush's newly presented fiscal year 2007 budget may look good on paper, but as a practical matter, they won't be much help to individual hospitals, says one expert.
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This past summer, when strong storms knocked out power in the St. Louis area, the incident command group at BJC Healthcare called the local emergency management agency (EMA) to tell them they had lost power at several of their 13 hospitals and were operating on emergency generators.