Most counties in Washington use the Ready, Set, Go evacuation level system, the only exceptions are Clallam and Wahkiakum who ...

Acuity is defined according to the Emergency Severity Index (ESI), which sorts patients by both severity and expected resources needed to complete the visit. ESI 1 represents patients in need of ...

Healthcare crisis impacts rural America as emergency rooms struggle with unpaid services, overcrowding and staff safety ...

Background Hospital emergency departments (ED) are increasingly overwhelmed by patients with both, urgent and non-urgent problems. [1, 2] This leads to crowded waiting rooms with long waiting times.

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and ...

Department of Endocrinology, The Quzhou Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Quzhou People’s Hospital, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China Objective: To investigate the association between the ...

As of now, wireless emergency alerts only go out in Spanish and English. Yet, nearly 68 million Americans speak another language other than English at home, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Objective: To assess the validity of the Manchester Triage System (MTS) in paediatric emergency care, using information on vital signs, resource utilisation and hospitalisation. Methods: Patients were ...

Objective To identify potential risk factors for adverse long-term outcomes (LTOs) associated with COVID-19, using a large electronic health record (EHR) database. Design Retrospective cohort study.

Emergency Management Coordinator Melissa Spencer underscored the critical role grant funding plays in preparedness efforts, particularly training and exercises designed to identify vulnerabilities.

As disasters loom, emergency managers say they aren’t counting on FEMA President Donald Trump has said he wants state and local officials to shoulder more of the burden of disaster response ...

SAN DIEGO — SANDAG said Friday it will conduct emergency repairs on part of a retaining wall near train tracks in the Bay Ho neighborhood. The agency says the North County Transit District ...