The Joint Commission offers a bit more specification, in terms of actionable requirements for healthcare facilities, in their standards for this subject: Standard EM 12.01.01, EP 2: “The hospital’s ...

Hospital emergency codes have often varied widely by location — even within hospitals in the exact same ... the code announcement also includes which emergency operations plan should be activated.

The restructuring plan could impact operations in one of the country’s busiest emergency rooms. Moses Hospital, which has 816 beds, is the ninth-busiest emergency department in the U.S ...

Plans for an emergency operations center are moving forward more than two years after winning a $1 million Congressional grant to build it inside Rockford Fire Department headquarters, 204 S ...