article thumbnail

How Valley View Hospital Learns From Disasters

Alert Media

The post How Valley View Hospital Learns From Disasters appeared first on AlertMedia.

article thumbnail

Prepare for the Impact of Tropical Storm Nicole

everbridge

This means collaborating with outside jurisdictions, hospitals, non-profits, and private businesses within the area. Employees should be trained and educated on how to receive and respond to severe weather alerts to keep themselves safe and operations protected.

Alert 119
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Optimize Emergency Communication in Hospitals

Alert Media

The post How to Optimize Emergency Communication in Hospitals appeared first on AlertMedia.

article thumbnail

Inclement weather response demands attention

everbridge

For example, in Maui and the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise, California alerts were delayed, use of sirens withheld, and evacuation procedures rendered ineffective. Emergency alert systems, including Wireless Emergency Alerts and NOAA Weather Radio, serve as direct lifelines to the public.

article thumbnail

Integrating Technologies, Security and Privacy: Hospital Security Systems Must Do More Than Lock Doors and Record Video

Security Industry Association

Hospitals around the globe face the challenge of meeting the needs of a wide variety of people, from protecting patients (and their confidential information) to ensuring the well-being of staff and physicians to providing a safe environment for visitors. Numerous sectors of a hospital have complex needs for role-based access control.

article thumbnail

Five Organizations Tackling Health Inequity: Meet PagerDuty.org’s Second Impact Accelerator Cohort by Olivia Khalili

PagerDuty

Nexleaf and PagerDuty began our partnership in 2020 to pilot automated power outage alerts to hospital workers and administrators in eight health facilities across Kenya. This simple use case for power outage data has already proven useful to health workers for preventing deadly power outages and improving backup generator management.

Outage 64
article thumbnail

Better Data for Public Health: How Nexleaf and PagerDuty are Monitoring Healthcare by Rachel Schmitz

PagerDuty

In rural Sub-Saharan Africa, however, it’s estimated that only about 28% of hospitals have reliable electricity. Having an unreliable power source causes a myriad of problems for rural hospitals. Without data showing exactly how long and costly these outages are, it’s difficult for these hospitals to justify additional funds. “O