About Emergency Preparedness
It’s time to change the way California thinks about disaster response. The COVID-19 pandemic showed that hospitals can quickly mobilize to provide flexible approaches to patient care during a disaster. The state must draw upon these lessons to prepare differently so the next crisis will be less severe. Given California’s size and complexity, the health care disaster response system of the future must be nimble enough to respond to any catastrophe. View more information on hospital disaster preparedness.
5 Things To Know: CDC Warns of First Marburg Virus Disease Outbreak in Rwanda
On Oct. 3, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert to inform clinicians and health departments that an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD), a rare but highly fatal viral hemorrhagic fever, has occurred in the Republic of Rwanda. As of Oct. 15, 62 illnesses and 15 deaths from MVD […]
5 Things To Know: Donations Needed as US Faces Emergency Blood Shortage
All hospitals with emergency departments must submit their ambulance patient offload time (APOT) reduction protocol to the Emergency Medical Services Authority by Sept. 1 under Assembly Bill (AB) 40 (2023). The law requires hospitals to include mechanisms in the protocol that will improve hospital operations and reduce APOT.