2022 Disaster Conference – Best Practice Showcase
Kaiser Permanente Northern California offers information and strategies for protecting hospital staff, patients, and visitors when air quality is poor due to wildfire smoke. This resource provides engineering and administrative controls, and recommends protective equipment usage during fires and disasters where air quality may impact the hospital.
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We’re pleased to share that yesterday in Sacramento, the Assembly approved Senate Bill (SB) 1432, which provides up to five years of additional time for hospitals to comply with the 2030 seismic mandate — at the discretion of the Department of Health Care Access and Information.
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The turn of the calendar to 2024 brings much change for California: a new budget that will have to navigate a deficit that could be as high as $68 billion, a presidential election year, and a host of new laws passed last year that are now in effect.
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Earlier this week, the California Department of Public Health released data that showed that in June, of the COVID specimens sequenced, 36% of COVID tests were the highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19. That’s up from less than 6% of analyzed specimens in May.