Metropolitan areas receiving a share of the 2010 Hospital Preparedness grants are New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles County and Washington, D.C. The grants for all recipients can be used for:
* interoperable information systems;
* systems to track available hospital beds;
* advance registration of volunteer health professionals;
* processes for hospital evacuations or sheltering-in-place;
* processes for fatality management;
* strengthening community level partnerships; and
* hospital participation in regional and statewide exercises.
For a list of grant recipients, click here.
--Joseph Goedert
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