The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979.[1][4] The agency's primary purpose is to coordinate the response to a disaster that has occurred in the United States and that overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities. The governor of the state in which the disaster occurs must declare a state of
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Trident University Module #1 – Case Assignment MHE 512 – Disaster Relief Objectives: For this case you are discuss the response by government, NGOs and volunteer groups to Hurricane Katrina. The question for you to answer is whether or not the organizational structure for disaster response for the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, and FEMA was adequate to effectively respond to a Cat. 3 - 5 hurricane on August 26th, 2005. As you respond to this question please complete the following:
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if that patient needs to be inpatient or only needs outpatient services. Once he has talked to the psychiatrist, he talks to the parents about the plan of action he has for that particular client. The facility offers outpatient, day treatment,
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Response Plan: Fire Evacuation A hospital, depending on its size can house hundreds of patients on any given day. Fire is a severe risk to the hospital because of its erratic nature. In this scenario, a fire in the mess hall has developed outside the staffs’ ability to successfully control and snuff out the fire. The fire has reached a level extreme enough to where management has deemed it necessary to call for a complete evacuation of the hospital. The Federal Emergency Management
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continuity plan is a collection of procedures and information which is developed, compiled and maintained in readiness for use in the event of an emergency or disaster. Whatever the definition, every business needs to have a continuity plan in case something happens to their data and information. A business continuity plan is different to a Disaster Recovery plan in that a disaster recovery plan is enacted after the disaster has happened. “A typical Business continuity plan includes: * Plans, measures
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first hears of a similar organization following the Civil War in Europe. An organization based on volunteer work that provides emergency assistance and disaster relief. The ARC cover five area of assistance, these are: military family assistance, blood support, safety and health education, community service and international relief and development. The Emergency disaster relief helps fire, hurricane, flood and earthquake victims re-establish their lives by providing, housing, food, health education
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The initial response or lack thereof, to the widespread disaster in the Gulf Coast, caused by Hurricane Katrina, demonstrated high levels of incompetence and disorganization by government officials. Images of desperate individuals awaiting rescue on their rooftops, and masses of people packed together in deplorable conditions in the Super Dome, circulated the globe. There was no hiding from the painful reality and the obvious inaction or inability of those responsible to care for these individual
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Reliability and Preparedness Many governmental and nongovernmental agencies have plans in place to handle terrorist attacks and natural disasters. However, many planners have only written these plans to meet a requirement. Many planners have not vetted their plans. As a result, their plans may not produce the desired outcomes when they are executed. Some effective methods planners can use to examine their plans are through assessing inputs and outcomes, evaluating the reliability of the system
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director of a regional Emergency Management office if I started receiving official reports that the public water supplies of several towns in the area have become exposed with a life-threatening biological agent, the strategy I would use to start a contingency plan that would address my organization and the public without creating panic would be to send an immediate email to all staff to attend an emergency, mandatory meeting. Employees who are unable to attend because of emergency situations will have
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|Table of Content | Table of Content Chapter Page 1. WHAT IS THE PROVINCIAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM? 4 2. INTRODUCTION 5 3. CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES 5 4. OVERVIEW OF PIMS COMPONENTS 6 4.1. PREPAREDNESS 6 4.2. COMMUNICATIONS & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 6 4.3 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 6 4.4 COMMAND & MANAGEMENT 7 4.5 ONGOING MANAGEMENT & MAINTENANCE 7
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