The Hospital Preparedness Program helps hospitals and emergency managers save lives in wildfires, tornadoes, pandemics and other mass-casualty events. When the McBride wildfire erupted in New Mexico ...

Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, is using the second confirmed case of Ebola in the U.S. as his platform to demand funds be re-established for the Hospital ...

A member of the Rhode Island Medical Reserve Corps intubates a simulator during the Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in ...

Hospitals told a major Senate panel that a $385 million bucket of annual emergency preparedness funding up for reauthorization should “be at least doubled” if the country’s healthcare system is to be ...

President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program threatens a fund used by state health systems from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic stronghold of California.

CLIMATEWIRE | When the McBride wildfire erupted in New Mexico three years ago, David Merritt had a math problem. The fire was closing in on a Lincoln County hospital with 11 admitted patients, but the ...

The Department of Health & Human Services has cut $42 million from the Hospital Preparedness Program for the rest of fiscal year 2011, according to an AHA News Now news report. The cut represents an ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded more than $352 million on Friday to continue improving the disaster preparedness of hospitals and healthcare systems around the nation. These ...

As Congress hammers out the federal budget for 2025, the hospital industry’s wish list is headlined by programs to strengthen the healthcare workforce and hospitals’ emergency response capabilities.

SACRAMENTO - President Donald Trump's push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program has prompted concern among state health officials, from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic ...