U.S., Citing ‘Urgent’ Need, Calls On Hospitals to Improve Disaster Plans

NYT ^ | 3/11/14 | SHERI FINK

[Army Air Corps]

Pingaroo...

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[Lazamataz]

What the hell are they planning!

[Red in Blue PA]

And do it for no more than $29.50 per year!

[Sacajaweau]

it’s been done for years.

[C210N]

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”.

[BenLurkin]

D. C. sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong again.

All good ideas perhaps — but the Federal Government is way out of control.

[BitWielder1]

Why? Since 0bamacare is destroying hospitals, what's the point?

[Chickenhawk Warmonger]

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.

[BitWielder1]

What the hell are they planning!

Massive civil unrest. First plan for it and then provoke it.

[outofsalt]

For some few weeks many IV solutions have been “back ordered” allegedly on account of the flu.

[outofsalt]

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.

[Sergio]

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.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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.

[bgill]

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.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“I FEEL SO DIRTY HAVING CLICKED THEIR LINK.”

Better thee than me...Slymes is, well, Slymee...

[Sergio]

Good for you, admirable intentions and great forethought. I still wonder how similar facilities, located in larger urban areas, will fare.

[metmom]

That is not encouraging.......

[MHGinTN]

That is a mighty dangerous asteroid debris field we’re entering that climaxes in late May ...