Becker's Healthcare July 17, 2024
Experts are warning hospital leaders at facilities near the Atlantic Ocean to take additional steps this year to ensure hurricane preparations are intact and enhanced, amid what is anticipated to be the worst hurricane season on record.
“The goal of health systems resiliency is to maintain an ability to provide non-interrupted patient care services during a crisis,” experts from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and Florida International University in Miami stated, as part of July 16 commentary in The Lancet. “This will increasingly require the need for not only qualified hospital emergency managers in all hospitals, but also clinicians who are trained as disaster medicine specialists.”
During the current hurricane season, the U.S. is expecting between 17 and...
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