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Disaster Planning:

Are Your Emergency Preparedness Plans Ready?

Published on Wed Apr 27, 2011

Recent natural disasters serve as grim reminders. Among the people affected by recent natural disasters across the country are many home care and hospice patients, and home health agencies and hospices have mobilized in response. Mary Schantz of the Missouri Alliance for Home Care told the National Association for Home Care & Hospice that four HHAs in Joplin have been completely destroyed and a private duty home care provider has been severely damaged, according to NAHC's member newsletter. And "a number of hospice programs in Joplin [Missouri] have been severely affected and hospice staff in the region are continuing to search for patients and families that have been displaced or are missing," reports the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization on its website. At press time, the death toll following the E-5 tornado that hit the town May 22 was at 124. Oxford HealthCare and Hospice, whose Joplin office was [...]
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