Hospital emergency preparedness -- lessons learned since Northridge

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The state of New York has developed a statewide system known as the Hospital Emergency Response Data System and similar systems are being developed in other states. This system was created to facilitate the exchange of information between hospitals during an emergency, including the number of available hospital beds, personnel, vehicles, equipment and supplies. This information can be used to transfer patients to another hospital if necessary, as happened in Los Angeles County after the Northridge earthquake of 1994.

Emergency management, Emergency preparedness, Quick response inventory system

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The emergence of physician-owned specialty hospitals

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General hospitals strongly object the physicians who refer their patients to specialty hospitals in which these practitioners hold an ownership interest. The government prohibits physicians from referring their Medicare and Medicaid patients to free-standings entities in which a practitioners or a member of practitioner's immediate family has an investment interest.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Medicine, Laws, regulations and rules, Practice, Physicians, Medical practice

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Unexpected necessities - inside charity hospital

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An associate professor at Charity Hospital, New Orleans discusses his experience of the time spent with the people affected by the hurricane Katrina and their basic needs fulfilled by the hospitals. Some of the basic necessities that were provided by the hospital to the victims included shoes, brewed coffee, clean toilets, and morale-boosting activities.

Health aspects, Disaster victims, Hurricane Katrina, 2005

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