John Montes, an NFPA emergency services specialist who helped write NFPA 3000, believes active shooter response plans should be distinct from hospital officials’ general emergency plans ...

Modeled on hospital incident command systems, an emergency management plan should be reviewed annually; for example, prior to hurricane season in the Southeast, Dr. Frenchik said.

The biggest lesson COVID-19 taught hospitals is how thin they can be stretched—and that includes morale, says Dr. Yves Duroseau, chair of emergency medicine and co-chair of disaster planning ...

Allegheny General Hospital deployed emergency operation plan minutes after North Side mass shooting. It is a pre-coordinated response system that many hospitals have in place for large-scale ...

A member of the Rhode Island Medical Reserve Corps intubates a simulator during the Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness ...

These plans establish specific steps to reduce death from cardiac arrest in school settings. They can be stand-alone guidelines or merged with a school’s existing medical emergency response plans.

History unfolded at Brockton Hospital on Tuesday when a 10-alarm fire triggered a massive emergency response and the hospital to be evacuated, with roughly 160 patients being taken to other area ho… ...