Citizens of the United States face catastrophic disaster such as hurricane, tornadoes, hazmat spills and flooding. Emergency management situations varies. Managers have to put into consideration the type of disasters or the response of citizens. A great example, the hurricane in Tuscaloosa, AL required large amounts of medical and debris assistance from teams to help return the destructed site back to prior condition. National Disaster Medical Systems would be one of the first to respond if there is a tragic event like in Tuscaloosa, AL. Threw research, I hope to cover the history, objectives, goals, and support towards National Disaster Medical System.
National Disaster Medical System is a federally coordinated system that augments the Nation's medical response capability according to phe.gov. NDMS serves as a National medical response team that is capable in response for State and local authorities in dealing with medical affects of catastrophic peace time disasters in which helped aide military as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs medical systems by aiding wounded individuals from overseas to the U.S.
All 50 U.S. states are funded locally through the government, by organizations such as FEMA and Red Cross. Citizens fail to realize the importance of having financial security during the response stage of a disaster program in damaged areas. Financial stability plays a huge role in the success of many emergency response organizations moreover great planning should be recognized as a continuing process. The National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) aids the Federal Medical response to natural or man made disasters, including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods transportation accidents, and terrorist acts inv...
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As some of the major problems of emergency response in the Toronto SARS crisis, the following can be mentioned:
The National response plan outlines four key actions the disaster coordinator should take. They are gaining and maintaining situational awareness, activate and deploy key resources and capabilities, coordinating response actions and demobilizing. Throughout the response it is essential that responders have access to critical information. During the initial response effort the situation is will change rapidly. Situational awareness starts at the incident site. For this reason it is essential that decision makers have access to the right information at the right time. By establishing an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) all key responders are brought ...
Both man-made and natural disasters are often devastating, resource draining and disruptive. Having a basic plan ready for these types of disaster events is key to the success of executing and implementing, as well as assessing the aftermath. There are many different ways to create an emergency operations plan (EOP) to encompass a natural and/or man-made disaster, including following the six stage planning process, collection of information, and identification of threats and hazards. The most important aspect of the US emergency management system in preparing for, mitigating, and responding to man-made and natural disasters is the creation, implementation and assessment of a community’s EOP.
Federal intervention in the aftermath of natural disasters began after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. This 8.3 magnitude earthquake killed 478, and left over 250,000 homeless. While the disaster itself was obviously unavoidable, the subsequent fires that burned throughout the city were a result of poor planning. (1, 17) In an effort to consolidate existing programs, and to improve the nation’s level of preparedness, President Carter created FEMA in 1979. Initially, FEMA was praised for improving communication between various levels of government, and multiple agencies during a crisis. (1,19)
Hazards pose risk to everyone. Our acceptance of the risks associated with hazards dictates where and how we live. As humans, we accept a certain amount of risk when choosing to live our daily lives. From time to time, a hazard becomes an emergent situation. Tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes along the Gulf Coast or earthquakes in California are all hazards that residents in those regions accept and live with. This paper will examine one hazard that caused a disaster requiring a response from emergency management personnel. Specifically, the hazard more closely examined here is an earthquake. With the recent twenty year anniversary covered by many media outlets, the January 17, 1994, Northridge, California earthquake to date is the most expensive earthquake in American history.
However, there are many emergency managers that believe that each of these areas have flaws, and could use some improvement to better support response and recovery preparedness efforts. The first issue that presented in the article was the misunderstanding of how the Stafford Act works, and state and local jurisdictions’ reliance on the federal government to provide assistance through this act before attempting to develop their own capabilities. Although emergency managers tend to support FEMA, another issue they want to see addressed is better communication between the agency and local authorities in regards to how to write mitigation grants. The third issue centers around the ICS. The problem presented in the article concerning ICS is that it is too rigid, and sets unreasonably high standards for smaller emergency management organizations to meet, which the majority of them do not have the realistic
NIMS provides agencies with extensive guidelines to attain preparedness that apply to all disasters including terrorist attacks. Agencies and responders who are fully prepared are confident and reliable ensuring the best outcomes in responding to disasters. There are many steps to take to
The Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA) is responsible for leading and supporting a comprehensive emergency management system of preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation. FEMA has been described as an extension cord of help in a disaster. This is because effective disaster preparedness requires more than FEMA alone can provide. FEMA works in collaboration with other organizations which are part of the nation’s emergency management system to provide economic and social support. Partners include federal, state, and local emergency management agencies as well the American Red Cross.
Handling serious medical problems are usually the priority of first responders after any catastrophes. However, fatalities of these unfortunate events (earthquake, flooding, tsunami, etc.) also have housing and nourishment concerns, and requires assistance in alleviating their non-urgent physical impairments from environmental dangers and communicable illnesses. Although some victims with non-urgent health problems were not a priority at the time, patients with chronic illness must be cautious to avoid infection or undesirable event. Therefore, health care organizations can assist these patient population, especially patients with cancer with or without current therapy to get an education on the need to be more watchful of their environment
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Emergency care has always been an important part of history all over the world. It has been said that medical assistance has been around and prevalent since as far back as 1500 B.C. Around the 1700’s is when EMS systems first began to experience large advancements, and ever since then, the field continues to grow and improve every year.
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When we think of disasters, we think of something that we have little or no control over it, some may be minor and some major. A disaster refer to sudden and shocking event that causes serious destruction, loss of lives, properties, loss of support and disruption of the function of the community to respond to the incident with available resources. There are two types of disaster, man-made (terrorism, riot, fire, wars bombing, flood, pollution etc) and natural disaster (earthquakes, fire, drought, hurricanes, tornados, volcanic eruption etc). These disasters occurred daily around the world and communities and health care personnel should be trained and ready at all time (Nies & McEwen, 2015). The most recent disaster that occurred three weeks ago was Hurricane Hermine in Florida that lead to, destruction of properties, injuries and a loss of life. The purpose of writing this paper is to identify a natural disaster (Hurricane Hermine) and discuss the type, characteristics and how the disaster was being managed.
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