Purdue University’s Integrated Emergency Management Plan (IEMP) uses a management system widely known as the Incident Command System (ICS). The ICS provides an organizational structure capable of ...

September is National Preparedness Month, which aims to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for emergencies. The American College of Healthcare Executives advises healthcare executives ...

Health systems are often the largest critical infrastructure nodes in a region. Capability failures cascade across emergency services, supply chains, and public safety partners. Executives in large ...

Area hospital groups say they had been preparing for Sunday’s record-breaking snowstorm. Both Aspirus and Marshfield Clinic ...

BOSTON — State officials have launched a command center to coordinate a response to clinical care in Eastern Massachusetts in the wake of Steward Health Care's financial struggles. Gov. Maura Healey's ...

CLIMATEWIRE | When the McBride wildfire erupted in New Mexico three years ago, David Merritt had a math problem. The fire was closing in on a Lincoln County hospital with 11 admitted patients, but the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the disparities in emergency and healthcare planning for vulnerable populations which will influence current and future resiliency initiatives for years to come.

SACRAMENTO - President Donald Trump's push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program has prompted concern among state health officials, from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic ...

Hospitals and health systems across the country have been returning to paper medical records during IT outages caused by the unceasing number of cyberattacks plaguing the industry. — Stand up incident ...