Disaster Preparedness news and information

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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Talks continue over New York state's Nov. 9 request to Medicaid officials for emergency cash assistance for hospitals with extraordinary expenses or lost revenue from superstorm Sandy. In the meantime, New York state is advancing hospitals cash, the Greater New York Hospital Association said.
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Go inside Long Beach Medical Center on Long Island, N.Y., and witness the bracing challenges its leaders face in the wake of superstorm Sandy's devastating impact. A video feature produced by Modern Healthcare New York Bureau Chief Melanie Evans, filmed as the hospital remained crippled weeks after...
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More than a month after superstorm Sandy devastated flood-prone communities in New Jersey and New York, five hospitals cannot admit patients because of its damage.
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A month after Hurricane Sandy struck New York City, unexpectedly shutting down several hospitals, one Upper East Side medical center had so many more emergency room patients than usual that it was parking them in its lobby.
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Hurricane Sandy was swirling northward, and at the Sea Crest Health Care Center, workers prepared to evacuate. Then the call came from health officials saying to stay put.
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