Posted on 03/11/2014 10:56:28 AM PDT by Kartographer
The regulations would require hospitals, nursing facilities and group homes to have plans to maintain emergency lighting, fire safety systems, and sewage and waste disposal during power losses, and to keep temperatures at a safe level for patients. Those inpatient facilities would also be expected to track displaced patients, provide care at alternate sites and handle volunteers. Transplant centers would need to identify alternate hospitals for patients awaiting organs — a challenge because centers maintain different transplant criteria. Home health care agencies would be required to help patients create personalized disaster plans. Hospices and others caring for frail, homebound patients would need procedures to help rescuers locate them. And health care employees would have to conduct disaster drills, while administrators might have to coordinate drills and response plans with local business competitors.
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Pingaroo...
Preppers’ PING!!
What the hell are they planning!
And do it for no more than $29.50 per year!
it’s been done for years.
Perhaps they know something is going to increase hospital demand. Given that they have control of MRAPs and millions of hollow point rounds, they should be “in the know”.
D. C. sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong again.
All good ideas perhaps — but the Federal Government is way out of control.
Something is definitely up with this. The hospitals/home care agencies I’ve worked for in my 30+ years of nursing have always had emergency prep plans in place and yearly drills were done. Why it is now being hyped by the government is strange indeed.
For some few weeks many IV solutions have been “back ordered” allegedly on account of the flu.
This is the New York Slimes reporting. Just hyping something that most hospitals do anyway. We test our Generators weekly.
I FEEL SO DIRTY HAVING CLICKED THEIR LINK.
Think about it. Hospitals have water, food, power, drugs, beds, air conditioning. Probably gonna be one of the first places hit and looted by the ferals if the system is out for more that a few days.
Mebbe so. But I live across the street from our local hospital/Med Center. I and a good many folks in town that I know plan on setting up a perimeter if that happens. Up until we are told to stand down by local constabulary.
This year’s flu victim numbers are nowhere near what they were a few years ago so them blaming that doesn’t hold water.
I’m reading this as improving and securing their infrastructures rather than merely the usual emergency drills. While under a different administration this would be hailed as common sense, but with hussein’s goons who know what it could mean.
“I FEEL SO DIRTY HAVING CLICKED THEIR LINK.”
Better thee than me...Slymes is, well, Slymee...
Good for you, admirable intentions and great forethought. I still wonder how similar facilities, located in larger urban areas, will fare.
That is not encouraging.......
That is a mighty dangerous asteroid debris field we’re entering that climaxes in late May ...
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