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 various ...

The increasing frequency and severity of natural and technological disasters have underscored the need for robust disaster preparedness within the healthcare system. In this context, nursing education ...

More than a quarter of state survey agencies lack adequate emergency preparedness skills, a new federal report shows. Partnering with other agencies and skilled nursing facilities could be a solution ...

When powerful wind gusts created threatening wildfire conditions one day near Boulder, Colorado, the state’s largest utility cut power to 52,000 homes and businesses — including Frasier, an assisted ...

It does not take a hurricane to put nursing home residents at risk when disaster strikes. Around the country, facilities have been caught unprepared for far more mundane emergencies than the ...

The City of Taunton announced a coordinated outreach effort to all nursing homes and assisted living facilities after the fire at a facility in Fall River. Representatives from the fire department and ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that Lippincott® Ready for NCLEX®-RN will now feature AI-driven remediation with personalized, multi-modal improvement plans, ...