Disaster preparedness: Are physicians ready?
Recommendations for best practices in the management of elderly disaster victims (PDF, 1MB, requires Adobe® Reader®)
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Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals: Legal and Regulatory Issues Report (PDF, 1.7MB)
Created by faculty, students, and staff at the Center for Law and the Public’s Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities (Center) with funding and personnel support from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), this Report identifies and discusses the legal and regulatory issues that relate to or impact the development and implementation of the state-based Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP), including emergency declarations; licensing, credentialing, and privileging issues; civil and criminal liability issues; and workers’ compensation. The Report examines and summarize areas of law relevant to ESAR-VHP, highlighting important legal issues and presenting timely and germane examples from existing law.
Although the information contained in this Report should be helpful to grantees and others, it does not constitute the official position of HRSA or of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), nor does it constitute legal advice. Legal advice on the issues discussed in this Report is necessarily fact-specific and may vary depending upon state law, the nature of the grantee, and specific circumstances. For specific requests for legal advice, HRSA suggests that each grantee contact its state's Office of the Attorney General or its institution’s legal counsel.
The National Agenda for Public Health Legal Preparedness
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The National Agenda for Public Health Legal Preparedness, which contains 98 action options, is the result of a 2007 summit convened by CDC's Public Health Law Program (PHLP/OCPHP) and the Coordinating Office for Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER). The American Medical Association was a summit collaborating organization along with other national organizations representing public health, emergency management, law enforcement, the judiciary, state elective office, legal practice, health care and other key sectors. Summit faculty included, among others, Dr. Ronald Davis, President of the American Medical Association; the Honorable Thurbert Baker, then-President of the National Association of Attorneys General; H. Thomas Wells, President-Elect of the American Bar Association; Dr. Georges Benjamin; and then-Acting HHS Deputy Secretary, Eric Hargan. In 2008, PHLP and COTPER will be convening regional workshops to assist state and local public health officials and their partners in using the action agenda to make concrete improvements in their legal preparedness for public health emergencies.
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