In light of COVID-19, all emergency preparedness plans should add in work-from-home policies and employee health concerns, among other things.

Integrated health systems should have the option to maintain one coordinated emergency plan in cases where a single plan improves preparedness. Collaboration with stakeholders.

Skilled nursing facilities are teaming up with state public health organizations for assistance in creating and enacting emergency preparedness plans that help them steer clear of or overcome ...

Last December, the CMS proposed a rule that would require 17 types of providers, including hospitals, long-term-care facilities, home health agencies, nursing homes, hospices, transplant centers ...

Experts are predicting that nursing home surveyors are going to start digging in on facilities’ emergency preparedness plans. Facilities, thus, need to take this seriously now to avoid increased ...

According to the Nursing Facility Licensing Standards for the state of Louisiana, nursing facilities should have an emergency preparedness plan in place, ready to be executed. Nursing home ...

A 2017 Medical Group Management Association poll found that nearly 20% of health system professionals said they did not have an emergency preparedness plan in place. 1 Considering the number of ...

Louisiana nursing homes’ emergency preparedness plans must be approved by the state’s Department of Health each year under a new law signed by Gov. John Bel Edwards (R), his office announced ...

Louisiana state regulations charge the Health Department with reviewing all nursing home emergency preparedness plans, allowing it to notify facilities if it decides they do not meet “current ...

All Louisiana nursing homes are required to maintain an emergency preparedness plan approved by the Louisiana Department of Health, says legislation recently signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards.

toya: uw health system says it’s moving into a new phase of emergency preparedness. patrick: 12 news kent wainscott asked health officials there whether wisconsin hospitals are ready for a ...