U.S. hospitals have improved their preparedness for disasters due to a focus on medical surge planning, according to a Federal Emergency Management Agency report. The 2012 National Preparedness Report ...

After Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria demonstrated the strains natural disasters can put on medical infrastructure, central Ohio hospitals have been coordinating their disaster relief preparations, ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $352 million in grants to help improve disaster preparedness of hospitals and health care systems. Recipients of the grants, ...

Hospitals told a major Senate panel that a $385 million bucket of annual emergency preparedness funding up for reauthorization should “be at least doubled” if the country’s healthcare system is to be ...

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 ...

Northern Cochise Community Hospital is a small critical-access hospital, with 24 inpatient beds and six emergency room beds, in rural Willcox, Ariz., in the southeast corner of the state. We serve a ...

As smoke overcame the crowd outside of Bronson Battle Creek Hospital, first responders rushed to the scene to rescue and treat the victims. However, no real danger was present. The planned scene was ...

President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program threatens a fund used by state health systems from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic stronghold of California.

Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital pushed its emergency room to the breaking point last week with a simulated mass casualty event to identify how it can improve its response to real-life crises in the ...

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration on Monday to give back grants to hundreds of disaster-prevention projects across the country, including dozens in the Northwest. One such project ...