The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is hosting a call on October 5, 2016 at 1:30 PM/ET to discuss new emergency preparedness requirements for Medicare and Medicaid providers and suppliers. CMS will discuss the provisions…
Many of the catastrophic hazards that LHDs plan for have serious potential to become mass fatality events. Even in the most well-prepared communities, events such as pandemics, chemical spills, radiation releases, mass shootings, and acts…
Severe weather – including tornadoes, flooding, snow, and ice – ravaged many southern and mid-western states over the Christmas holiday weekend. NACCHO would like to extend our sympathies to the families who lost loved ones…
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has released “Regional Disaster Response Coordination to Support Health Outcomes: Summary of a Workshop Series.” This report series features summaries from three regional Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for…
Since 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) grant has provided support to public health departments across the nation, allowing them to build and strengthen their ability to…
With the sunshine and warm weather that summertime brings, comes severe heat and storms. Many communities in the southern United States are already experiencing such adverse conditions, with devastating outcomes. On May 24, heavy rainfall…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a new data visualization tool that allows people to explore and record historic federal disaster declarations by state, county, hazard, or year. Users can see the number of…
By Gwen Camp, director of individual and community preparedness for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Despite the heartbreaking stories of recent disasters, research shows nearly 60 percent of Americans have not participated in a…
The National Health Security Preparedness Index (NHSPI), a new way to measure and advance the nation’s readiness to respond to large scale emergencies of all kinds, released the results for 2014 on December 9. The…
The 2014 National Preparedness Report from the Federal Emergency Management Agency marks the third in the series. Required annually by Presidential Policy Directive 8: National Preparedness, the National Preparedness Report summarizes progress in building, sustaining,…