President Donald Trump asked hospitals to activate their emergency preparedness plans and declared the COVID-19 outbreak a national emergency, which will allow HHS to give providers more flexibility.

Christ also told hospitals to fully activate their emergency plan, in keeping with an executive order from Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey that calls for expanding hospital bed capacity, first by 25% and ...

The state health director instructed hospitals on June 6 to “fully activate” their emergency plans, meaning they should increase ICU capacity by 50%, suspend elective surgeries and staff ...

Why do hospitals most often activate their emergency preparedness plans? The 2014 Emergency Management Survey from Health Facilities Management, the Association for the Healthcare Environment and ...

The Arizona Department of Health Services urged the state’s hospitals to “fully activate” their facility emergency plans -- as the state has seen a spike in coronavirus cases since reopening ...

ADHS first sent a letter in Marchtelling hospitals to activate their facility emergency plans to respond to COVID-19.The June letter included updated information. The rise in cases has led ADHS ...

Seminole County Emergency Manager Alan Harris talks about activating the Extreme Weather Plan in Seminole County during a press conference in response to the expected low temperatures over the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — City officials are preparing to activate their emergency weather plan for homeless shelters ahead of a cold Thanksgiving night forecast.This also comes as over 25 people were put ...