Disaster Preparedness

Use of Medicare-covered cognitive assessments tripled over 4 years, but most patients still being missed … Washington nursing homes missed key life safety, emergency preparedness and infection control...

Despite the COVID-19 troubles currently facing eldercare facilities, things could have been much worse for some, a Michigan survey suggests.

AAN, American Red Cross release disaster preparedness tips for frontline care providers … No-cost virtual wound care model open to skilled nursing facilities … Combo drug therapy ‘strongly recommended’...

Disaster preparation plans should not necessarily count on skilled nursing facilities to handle additional patients that hospitals cannot accommodate, according to newly published findings.

Documentation firm Briggs Healthcare and Hytropy.com announced a strategic partnership that will make disaster preparedness and business continuity services available to healthcare facilities of all sizes.

Five people were confirmed dead and 31 were missing after a fire blazed through a Canadian nursing home built out of wood early Thursday morning.

One day after a powerful tornado destroyed a hospital and devastated an Oklahoma town, long-term care stakeholders gathered at a disaster preparedness conference organized by the Center for Preparedness...

Having once slept through a 6.7-magnitude earthquake, driven blithely through snowstorms and regularly horrified my Kansas-born husband with my lack of knowledge about tornadoes, I am far from an expert...

When planning disaster-response programs, organizers often overlook the needs of individuals with mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, addiction and bipolar disorder, bioethicists say.

The Senate Special Committee on Aging met Wednesday to address the importance of emergency and disaster planning and the need for improved coordination between policy makers and long-term care providers.