The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may soon intensify its reform agenda focus on emergency planning, one of many areas targeted in President Biden’s 21-point nursing home plan unveiled ...

The University of Wyoming’s Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing recently implemented comprehensive disaster management ...

Q: What parts of the emergency preparedness plan should the director of nursing services examine? A:The three aspects of the emergency preparedness plan most important for the nursing department are: ...

According to the Nursing Facility Licensing Standards for the state of Louisiana, nursing facilities should have an emergency preparedness plan in place, ready to be executed. Nursing home ...

New law requires nursing homes to have their emergency plans approved each year by the state. All Louisiana nursing homes are required to maintain an emergency preparedness plan approved by the ...

The coronavirus pandemic is a sudden, new threat to assisted living and skilled nursing homes — and those facilities already are under increasing threat from wildfire in California. A KQED ...

Tampa, FL (Oct. 1, 2004) -- A new $434,000 U.S. Department of Defense contract to the University of South Florida College of Nursing will help prepare the Tampa Bay region's nurses and other health ...

After this year’s natural disasters, I worry more about climate emergency preparedness at my sister’s nursing home than COVID-19. My fears about nursing home virus outbreaks have receded, given ...

A small group of BYU nursing students traveled to Japan this summer with professor Ryan Rasmussen, graduate program coordinator Craig Nuttall and visiting faculty Hiromi Tobe to visit the Ishikawa ...

Authorities say they are responding to a reported gas explosion at a nursing home just outside Philadelphia and that people were believed to be trapped inside. A Pennsylvania Emergency Management ...