A Winnipeg outreach organization is questioning the city's emergency services system after a young woman was left waiting for ...

The new guidance required cities to both consider social vulnerability among neighborhoods in their disaster mitigation planning and involve socially vulnerable communities in those discussions in ...

During the 2023 wildfires, the government of the Northwest Territories used its 2018 emergency plan — and, according to a consulting firm tasked with reviewing the territory's emergency response ...

D. Kreisberg et al., “Vulnerable Populations in Hospital and Health Care Emergency Preparedness Planning: A Comprehensive Framework for Inclusion,” Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 31 (2), (2016) ...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the disparities in emergency and healthcare planning for vulnerable populations which will influence current and future resiliency initiatives for years to ...

Democrats, however, have argued that Vermont's other "vulnerable" populations — including all pregnant women, veterans and victims of domestic violence — at risk of eviction this spring should ...

Democratic lawmakers have agreed to cut funding for the state-run hotel-motel program from the Budget Adjustment Act that would have extended emergency shelters for hundreds of unhoused Vermonters ...

Audit said fire agencies unprepared to help vulnerable. 5 years later, officials finally discuss it. A hearing was co-led by Assemblymember John Harabedian, who chairs the Joint Legislative Audit ...

State health officials on Monday said the next phase of Texas' vaccine distribution plan will include populations who are more vulnerable to severe illness from COVID-19. Last week, the state ...

The purpose of the Guardian Project/Vulnerable Population Registry is to provide emergency responders with important information from individuals who may require assistance during an emergency, e ...

Quebec floated a plan to reassign family doctors from healthy patients to the most vulnerable, a move experts warn could be 'detrimental' to overall patient care.