by Maurice Ramirez | Nov 11, 2007 | Plan
Healthcare is a business and fortunately most involved in the business of healthcare are ethical and moral people. To be sure, there are some who commit fraud and steal from the system. Many are caught and suffer civil and criminal penalties for their deliberate...
by Maurice Ramirez | Aug 6, 2007 | Lessons Learned, Plan
In the years since 9/11, those in disaster planning, preparation, education, response and recovery have concentrated all their effort on convincing private healthcare corporations and non-healthcare corporations alike to adopt an all hazards approach to adversity and...
by Maurice Ramirez | Jul 10, 2007 | Plan
A recent National Incident Management System (NIMS) update alert from the NIMS Implementation Center, included obscure reference to a frequently asked question (FAQ) document on the FEMA website. This document, posted on April 20, 2007, like many documents before it...
by Maurice Ramirez | Jun 11, 2007 | Plan
There are as many ways to write an after-action report as there are hospitals that are now required to perform disaster drills and write after-action reports analyzing the performance of the institution following a disaster or a disaster exercise. Since there are...
by Allison Sakara | Jan 16, 2007 | Plan
Many people are remaining in the workforce longer than they used to, and all too often they are losing their hearing in the process. Sadder still is that the noise we subject ourselves to each day means we are often responsible for our own hearing loss. Until...
by Maurice Ramirez | Jan 16, 2007 | Plan
Paul Purcell paints a terrifying picture of the newest potential “dirty bomb” in his recent posting to www.disaster-blog.com. His concept is not wholly new although the application that he describes represents a concerning variation on an old Hollywood theme. ...
