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Disaster Preparedness

DaVita Offers Advice to Prepare for Winter Emergencies

DENVER— DaVita is reminding patients and their families to prepare for weather-related emergencies by creating kits stocked with medication and emergency diet provisions. ...More
January 6, 2012
Posted in News
Taking Hemodialysis Home Safely

All home hemodialysis patients should prepare for local disasters including adverse weather, home fires, earthquakes and epidemics ...More
November 1, 2011
Posted in Articles, Practice Management
CMS Proposes to Ease ESRD Federal Fire Code Rules

WASHINGTON—Medicare is proposing to ease federal fire safety regulations after finding the extra structural requirements would impose large costs on already fire-safe dialysis facilities ...More
October 19, 2011 By Keith Chartier
Posted in Articles, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
NxStage Highlights Emergency Preparedness Guidebook

LAWRENCE, Mass.—With Hurricane Irene bearing down on the east coast, NxStage Medical is highlighting it emergency preparedness guidebook to remind patients to be ready for natural disasters. ...More
August 26, 2011
Posted in News, Practice Management
Social Media Keeps Patients Informed for Irene

With Hurricane Irene barreling towards the east coast, some evacuations are already under way and dialysis providers are urging patients to prepare ahead of time. ...More
August 24, 2011
Posted in Blog, Practice Management
East Coast Prepares for Hurricane Irene

It seems Mother Nature has set out to challenge the east coast’s disaster preparedness these days. Today, a 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit in Virginia, and in the coming days the entire eastern seaboard will be prepping for the first major hurricane to threaten the United ...More
August 23, 2011
Posted in Blog, Practice Management
Dialysis Patients Unprepared for Disasters

WASHINGTON— Most dialysis patients are not prepared to effectively handle man-made or natural disasters and this puts them in great danger of becoming seriously sick or dying in the face of a disaster, according to a published online Aug. 18 in the Clinical Journal of the ...More
August 22, 2011
Posted in News, Practice Management
HHS Increases Emergency Preparedness Funds

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded more than $613 million to strengthen all-hazards emergency preparedness in the 50 states, four large metropolitan areas, and eight U.S. territories and Pacific island areas. ...More
August 16, 2011
Posted in News, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
Social Media Could Help Disaster Preparedness, Response

PHILADELPHIA—Social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare may be an important key to improving the public health system’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, according to a July 28 New England Journal of Medicine “Perspective” article ...More
July 27, 2011
Posted in News, Practice Management
HHS Awards Disaster Preparedness Grants

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on July 1 awarded more than $352 million to continue improving disaster preparedness of hospitals and healthcare systems within every state, and three large metropolitan areas. ...More
July 6, 2011
Posted in News, Government & Regulation, Practice Management