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U.S. emergency care system deemed unready for disaster.
The U.S. emergency care system is "fragmented and stretched to the breaking point," "severely compromised in its ability to handle disasters," and funded in a drastically uneven manner from state to state. Such are the findings of two groups that are closely tracking the disaster response capacity of the nation's health care system.
The Institute of Medicine spent three years studying U.S. emergency care and found that "only a tiny fraction of federal funding for emergency preparedness since 9/11 has been spent on medical preparedness." Despite medical responders' crucial role in disasters, they received a scant four percent of DHS's emergency preparedness budget in 2002 and 2003, and only five percent of the funding from the Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program.
IOM listed three main institutional problems that are draining hospital preparedness: the boarding of patients in emergency departments until regular beds are ...
- PROFNET WIRE: HEALTH & MEDICINE: Emergency Care System.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 20, 2006 700+ words
...ROUND-UPS Emergency Care System (11 experts) Combating...are Increasing ROUND-UP: EMERGENCY CARE SYSTEM Following are health experts...problems plaguing the nation's emergency care system, which is overcrowded and...
- Emergency care system is shaky, panel warns.(News)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Finkelstein, Joel B. July 15, 2006 700+ words
...authority over the majority of emergency care activities at the federal level...coordinating and streamlining the emergency care system. Federal agencies also need...committee also concluded that the emergency care system is not equipped to cope with...
- CMA to Unveil Report Detailing Collapse of California's Faltering Emergency...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 18, 2001 700+ words
...report documenting the crisis in emergency care. Emergency rooms and physicians...would avert the collapse of the emergency care system in California. The legislation...the way emergency funds and emergency care are distributed. The CMA report...
- If you have a heart attack, hope you're in Seattle. (city has CPR-trained...
- Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post Rylko, Christina April 1, 1988 700+ words
...calculated to require 31 new emergency-care vehicles, each costing about...form Seattle's emerrgency-care system, and how to maintain the lvictim...trained citizenry with a fast emergency-care system has given Seattle the best statistic...
- Nation's Emergency Physicians Offer Solutions to Ailing Emergency Care System.
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 2, 2009 700+ words
...Increased Risks Due to Economic Crisis and Failing Health Care System WASHINGTON -- The nation's recession and mounting job...nearly 27,000 members. ACEP is committed to advancing emergency care through continuing education, research and public education...
- Call to improve emergency care system
- News wire article from: The Hindustan Times July 6, 2009 700+ words
...be done in the country and the State as well to make the emergency care mechanism more efficient. Against this backdrop, the North...lives every year which can be minimised if an effective emergency care facility is in place at every hospital,' opined Dr Atanu...
- County upgrades emergency care system: CONTRA COSTA: New plan redefines...
- Newspaper article from: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) July 2, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Malaika Fraley Jul. 2--One hot summer day last year, ambulances were called to the Sleep Train Pavilion after about 150 people fell victim to heat exhaustion. But the ambulances were turned away at Mount Diablo Medical Center because the facility was overwhelmed by concertgoers who got
- Nation's emergency care in state of emergency, says IOM ...(Institute of...
- Magazine article from: Healthcare Financial Management August 1, 2006 700+ words
...the state of the nation's emergency care system. The reports find that the...care that threatens the entire emergency care infrastructure. According to the IOM, the emergency care system of the future should be highly...
