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The Prescription for Response: Hurricane Helene Emergency Coordination and Resource Management in Tennessee

Region IV Public Health Training Center

We will highlight public health and medical response efforts, including critical deployable equipment and strike teams utilized during the disaster. This session will also cover successes and lessons learned from the response, providing valuable insights to inform strategies for mitigating the impact of future disasters.

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Keeping community first in WNC after Hurricane Helene

UNC Epidemiology Blog

The Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI) was one of the organizations to partner with the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition (NCBfC) Support and Advocacy for Infant Feeding in Emergencies Team (SAFE Team) to support local experts with lactation, infant feeding, and birthing care in response and recovery efforts.

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Can AI Help with Disaster Preparation Technology?

Smart Data Collective

Last year, the World Meteorological Association reported that AI technology is playing an increasingly more important role in disaster management. Climate change, the pandemic and a number of other factors have caused the number of disasters to increase significantly in recent years.

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Amid Wildfire Trauma, L.A. County Dispatches Mental Health Workers to Evacuees

KFF Health News

That evening, the 49-year-old volunteered for a 14-hour shift at the city’s evacuation center, as did colleagues who had also been activated for emergency medical duty. The widower had leaned on her husband in past emergencies, and now she felt lost. The work takes a toll on disaster relief workers too.

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Amid wildfire trauma, L.A. County dispatches mental health workers to evacuees

HEALTHBEAT

That evening, the 49-year-old volunteered for a 14-hour shift at the citys evacuation center, as did colleagues who had also been activated for emergency medical duty. Now you lace in all of this climate change and these disasters into a health care system that isnt set up to care for the people that already have mental health illness.

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Data Analytics is Crucial for Businesses Preparing for Financial Disasters

Smart Data Collective

One of the most important ways to utilize big data is with financial management. Data-driven financial management is likely more important than ever. Having an emergency fund and the right insurance in place will be massively important when it comes to making sure such changes don’t cripple your business.

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Emergency department boarding: Covering the hidden horror story

Association of Health Care Journalists

Emergency department boarding is a horror story that’s largely hidden from public view. Very sick patients are held for hours or even days in the emergency department, often on a gurney in a hallway, waiting for an inpatient bed or transfer to another facility. However, it may not be easy to cover. Harms are apparent.