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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of coordinated responses among emergency management and other stakeholders to implement an effective strategy for handling a long and complex disaster. Due to a number of factors , pandemics are more likely to occur in the future.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

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Hurricane Preparedness for Healthcare Facilities. But hospital crisis managers must also account for the unique care-dependent nature of hospital operations by taking these four disaster preparedness steps: Adjust staffing levels, supplies, and emergency medicine stores to accommodate patient-surge capacity.