Hospital Decontamination Operations- Training
If your staff attend a training session such as the one provided by the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) they learn the process of establishing and operating a decontamination corridor. I [...]
Hospital Decontamination Operations – Staffing
In my experience staffing is one of the biggest challenges hospitals face when trying to sustain a Hospital Emergency Response Team (HERT) program. Staff members get selected based upon their [...]
Road to Rio Leads to Zika – How do we prevent illness and spread of disease?
I think it's hard to argue that prevention of disease in the case of the Zika virus does beat a pound of cure. We are unlikely to have a vaccine [...]
Recommendations to enhance your organization’s emergency preparedness in 2016.
It's a challenge to know where to devote planning, training and exercise time with so many competing demands, agendas and requirements. Consider this - people will fall back on two [...]
What’s In Your Go Bag?
I thought it may be fun and educational for us to share what we keep in our go kits for times of emergency. The photo below shows my pack supplies [...]
Leave or Stay: When Should We Really Evacuate and Why?
I'm curious if readers would blindly follow a "mandatory" mass evacuation order? A recent train derailment in East Tennessee resulted in a mass evacuation that the public was told could last [...]
Can’t See the Forest For the Trees – Again
Below I've listed the officially recognized Ebola Treatment Centers in the United States as of February 14th 2015. If we have a case of Ebola, we know where to take [...]
Building A Better Emergency
Three articles caught my eye this past week that I think are worth you taking a look at. The first involves a partnership to produce a better shelter. I think [...]
Could Current Shelter Requirements Keep People Out in the Cold?
I've helped a number of jurisdictions develop sheltering plans and exercise them so I understand current regulations in the United States. If you and your family are going to be [...]
NIMS Implementation for Healthcare Organizations Guidance – January 2015
NIMS compliance means more than just referencing NIMS in documents. Organizations should review the latest publication NIMS Implementation for Healthcare Organizations Guidance January 2015 put out by ASPR and HPP. Organizations can [...]