Disaster Preparedness news and information

For public health officials across the country, the Boston Marathon bombing and the blast at a Texas fertilizer plant last week served as a wake-up call: How would their communities cope?
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Once again, a senseless act of violence has upended any notion that the war on terror will someday end and a sense of normalcy will return to national life.
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The CMS denied New York State's request for emergency cash relief for healthcare providers that lost revenue or saw expenses soar because of superstorm Sandy.
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The New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. estimates that costs related to superstorm Sandy will hit $810 million.
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NYU Langone Medical Center, the badly battered 806-bed facility that was shuttered by superstorm Sandy, resumed many of its operations Dec. 27, but its emergency room will remain closed and will continue routing patients to other facilities.
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BERLIN, Vt.—Vermont plans to break ground this week on a 25-bed psychiatric hospital in Berlin that will serve as a replacement for a state psychiatric hospital that was closed after sustaining damage caused by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. The state has fast-tracked plans to build the...
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NYU Langone Medical Center, the badly battered 786-bed facility that was shuttered by October's “superstorm” Sandy, resumed many of its operations today, but its emergency room remains closed and will continue routing patients to other facilities.
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Nicole Lurie, HHS assistant secretary, applauded the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the U.S.' first anthrax anti-toxin.
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The image of his brother trapped in a car with water rising to his neck, his eyes silently pleading for help, is part of a recurring nightmare that wakes Anthony Gatti up, screaming, at night.
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Unionized nurses plan to picket New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's home tomorrow and present him with a petition calling for immediate steps to ease what the nurses charge is a mounting patient care crisis in parts of the city still smarting from Sandy.
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