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Surge Managment Workgroup May Report
The Surge Management workgroup held its May call on May 22. The call opened with a debrief about each member’s experience this...
May 28, 2014 | Stacy Stanford
Insurance Company Sues Illinois Cities over Climate Change Damages
Mounting evidence, including the recent findings of the 2014 National Climate Assessment, show that the impacts of climate change are...
May 21, 2014 | Erin Roberts
Grant Opportunity Available: HPP and PHEP Cooperative Agreements
The notice for the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) and Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Cooperative Agreements has been...
Mar 19, 2014 | Admin
Hospital Preparedness Program Budget Cuts Could Jeopardize Gains Made in Healthcare...
On Jan. 17, President Obama signed into law a Federal spending bill that included a cut of over $100 million to the Health and Human...
Mar 11, 2014 | Nicole Dunifon
NACCHO Hosts George Washington University Students for Policy Scholars Program
Over the past several months, NACCHO staff have developed a Policy Scholars Program that provides graduate-level students with the...
Feb 11, 2014 | Sara Rubin
Georgetown Climate Center’s Workshop on Supporting State and Local Adaptation...
On Jan. 31, NACCHO staff attended the Supporting State and Local Adaptation through Existing Federal Programs: Water Infrastructure...
Feb 10, 2014 | Justin Snair
Nurse Triage Line Project Site Visit to United Health Group & Poison Control Center...
On December 12 and 13, NACCHO participated in a CDC-led site visit for the Nurse Triage Line Project (NTL) partners to visit the...
Dec 17, 2013 | Sara Rubin
Surge Management Workgroup November Report
The Surge Management work group convened via conference call the third week of November. The group continued the conversation around...
Nov 27, 2013 | Stacy Stanford
Tennessee Hospitals Test Readiness in Mass Casualty Response Exercise
Knox County (TN) Health Department and the East Tennessee Regional Health Office conducted one of the largest hospitals exercises in...
Nov 12, 2013 | Admin
Surge Managment Workgroup May ReportThe Surge Management workgroup held its May call on May 22. The call opened with a debrief about each member’s experience this year for workgroup feedback requests. NACCHO asks workgroups to provide their advice and feedback on items when our federal partners need the local perspective. Most feedback was positive; members felt a local perspective […] May 28, 2014 | Stacy Stanford |
Insurance Company Sues Illinois Cities over Climate Change DamagesMounting evidence, including the recent findings of the 2014 National Climate Assessment, show that the impacts of climate change are already being felt. A lawsuit is driving that point home: Farmers Insurance Co. has filed nine class-action lawsuits against dozens of Chicago-area municipalities, alleging that they knew climate change posed flooding risks, but failed to […] May 21, 2014 | Erin Roberts |
Grant Opportunity Available: HPP and PHEP Cooperative AgreementsThe notice for the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) and Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Cooperative Agreements has been published on Grants.gov here. These grants are offered through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response/National Healthcare Preparedness Programs and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Office of Public Health Preparedness and... Mar 19, 2014 | Admin |
Hospital Preparedness Program Budget Cuts Could Jeopardize Gains Made in Healthcare and Public Health PreparednessOn Jan. 17, President Obama signed into law a Federal spending bill that included a cut of over $100 million to the Health and Human Services’ Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP). That equals nearly a 30 percent reduction in a program specifically aimed at strengthening healthcare preparedness for public health emergencies. These cuts could have severe and dire consequences on the ability of... Mar 11, 2014 | Nicole Dunifon |
NACCHO Hosts George Washington University Students for Policy Scholars ProgramOver the past several months, NACCHO staff have developed a Policy Scholars Program that provides graduate-level students with the opportunity to draft policy statements on behalf of NACCHO, work with staff members to receive feedback, and then present the statement to the appropriate NACCHO workgroup for review. Students have the opportunity to learn about a […] Feb 11, 2014 | Sara Rubin |
Georgetown Climate Center’s Workshop on Supporting State and Local Adaptation through Existing Federal Programs: Water InfrastructureOn Jan. 31, NACCHO staff attended the Supporting State and Local Adaptation through Existing Federal Programs: Water Infrastructure workshop hosted by Georgetown Climate Center (GCC). GCC is a nonpartisan organization that seeks to advance effective climate, energy, and transportation policies in the United States by supporting policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities... Feb 10, 2014 | Justin Snair |
Nurse Triage Line Project Site Visit to United Health Group & Poison Control Center in MinneapolisOn December 12 and 13, NACCHO participated in a CDC-led site visit for the Nurse Triage Line Project (NTL) partners to visit the Hennepin Poison Control Center and several facilities on the United Health Group’s Minneapolis campus. Staff Andrew Roszak and Sara Rubin, along with NACCHO member Robert Einweck (member of the Medical Countermeasures Workgroup and […] Dec 17, 2013 | Sara Rubin |
Surge Management Workgroup November ReportThe Surge Management work group convened via conference call the third week of November. The group continued the conversation around the topics of the public health role in hospital coalitions and electronic medical records in light of information sharing during disasters. The discussions led to several common themes. First, there is a real benefit for […] Nov 27, 2013 | Stacy Stanford |
Tennessee Hospitals Test Readiness in Mass Casualty Response ExerciseKnox County (TN) Health Department and the East Tennessee Regional Health Office conducted one of the largest hospitals exercises in Tennessee on Nov. 6. Fifty-four hospitals in East Tennessee participated in the drill to test how they would handle a 20 percent surge of their emergency room capacities. This drill was the first time that […] Nov 12, 2013 | Admin |
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