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Emergency Services and Response | RAND First responders—including police, paramedics, firefighters, and public health agencies—must react to all manner of emergencies, from terrorism to natural disasters RAND research supports private-sector and government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels that are charged with responding to, mitigating the effects of, and recovering from natural disasters, acts of terrorism
Strategies for Sustaining Emergency Care in the United States Over the past decade, much has changed in the emergency care landscape in the United States Hospital-based emergency departments (EDs) and the health care professionals who provide care in them have been at the forefront of responding to the opioid and gun violence epidemics and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with reported increases in patient acuity and complexity
Viability of Hospital-Based Emergency Care in U. S. Faces Peril; Reforms . . . The number of hospital emergency departments is declining, with most closures occurring in rural areas The RAND study found that the scope of work for emergency physicians in the U S health system is expanding, with evidence that emergency departments have become hubs that offer various services beyond emergency care
Special Efforts Needed to Allow 988 and 911 Systems to Work Together . . . The process of assessing a caller's needs and deploying the right resource—be it phone counseling, emergency medical services, police, or fire response—requires procedures tailored to every jurisdiction's governmental, geographic, and population characteristics, researchers say Support for the research was provided by the Pew Charitable
Bolstering the Role of Emergency Departments as Part of the Nations . . . For example, routine incorporation of designated leadership and staff in health care coalitions (PDF), regional trauma networks, and networks related to FEMA Regions may help ensure emergency departments play a more effective critical infrastructure role through better integration in the larger emergency response system Such networks may also
Emergency Medical Services | RAND Health and Social Services During Heat Events: Demand for Services in Los Angeles County The authors analyze the relationship between extreme heat events in Los Angeles County and increases in (1) emergency medical services, (2) emergency room visits, (3) deaths investigated by the medical examiner, and (4) bookings for violent offenses
Tailoring Disaster and Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Response . . . care services in the emergency department and inpatient settings, strained capacity and resultant barriers to accessing health care services can adversely affect their outcomes There Is a Critical Need to Identify and Benchmark Population-Specific Best Practices for Local, State Territorial, and Federal Responders to
Emergency Responders | RAND Special Efforts Needed to Allow 988 and 911 Systems to Work Together and Optimize Emergency Response Getting the 988 and 911 emergency telephone systems to work in concert requires detailed planning and close cooperation, and such efforts may benefit from having one or two people at the local level who act as champions for interoperability
Evaluation of the Emergency Education Response for Syrian Refugee . . . The Emergency Education Response Programme has achieved considerable successes The achievements of the EER are considerable, including large scale, multi-stakeholder mobilisation to provide access to formal education for 130,000 Syrian children within Jordan's public system and informal and non-formal education for 35,000 children
Streamlining Emergency Management - RAND Corporation The overall number of constructs has grown, and the poor integration among them can worsen emergency management services and disaster outcomes Researchers reviewed 31 FEMA-selected constructs for opportunities to streamline, simplify, and strengthen the system, assessing how overlap, duplication, and fragmentation could affect implementation