Floodwaters have engulfed large parts of New South Wales, with at least one person dead and almost 50,000 evacuated after days of heavy rainfall in a "one-in-500-year" flood event. The scale of the ...

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Hospitals are in a unique position when disaster strikes. Predominately regarded as safe havens, hospitals are expected to continuously provide quality patient care and protection to patients, ...

The American College of Surgeons has released an online version of a course designed to equip physicians with best practices for responding to mass casualty incidents. The Disaster Management and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced Friday that it has been dealing with an ongoing “capacity disaster” and that it ...

Without reform, emergency practices will remain financially fragile and expose patients to preventable risk.

The COVID-19 pandemic was most people’s introduction to the critical importance of hospital emergency preparedness. However, while it is strikingly clear that prolonged surges of patients occur during ...

The day before September 11, 2001, the cover story of U.S. News and World Report described an emergency care system in critical condition as a result of demand far in excess of its capacity (Shute and ...