Solution: Emergency Management

Emergency Management

Why COOP Matters for Grant Management

by Alison Cofrancesco

Legislatures have pushed the preparedness into the lawbooks and started to tie funds to preparedness. With these new dynamics emerging for governments, it's a good time to take stock of the landscape and build a game plan for preparedness.

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Building a Continuity of Operations Plan for Small and Local Government

Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) Emergency Management

Building a Continuity of Operations Plan for Small and Local Government

by Addison Shaw

Organizing the re-establishment of continuity following a disaster without a plan can be challenging. This is where continuity of operations plans (CCOP) come in.

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Emergency Management

Are Community Lifelines Changing the Way We Approach Disasters?

by Addison Shaw

The FEMA Community Lifelines outline seven basic functions and structures communities rely on to survive. Emergency management practitioners have always been aware of the webs of continuity in communities; the Community Lifelines framework brings those connections to the forefront and helps all stakeholders work within the response.

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Ramp-up Covid-19 Test Kit Distribution in Your Town

Emergency Management Pandemic

Ramp-up Covid-19 Test Kit Distribution in Your Town

by Addison Shaw

What those testing kits packages from federal and state governments lack is a solid plan for distribution. While some towns and cities may be able to repurpose old processes or current infrastructure for this task, many others are left wondering how they can get this shipment of supplies out to their residents.

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Emergency Management Healthcare

First Responder Panel: Hear from Veoci’s Own Fire, Emergency Management, and EMS Responders

by Camryn Gaudett

For those who have never worked as a first responder, it's difficult to understand what a day, or night, in the lives of those who arrive on the scene of an emergency first really looks like from the inside. Hearing these stories firsthand from responders on the Veoci team.

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Emergency Management Utilities

USC’s Great Shakeout: Conducting A Successful Campus-Wide Earthquake Drill

by Camryn Gaudett

The University of Southern California (USC) is a long-time participant of the Great ShakeOut. This year, however, USC decided to execute their exercise differently, completely running the drill from start to finish utilizing their new emergency management software: Veoci.

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Emergency Management Healthcare

Establishing Stronger Resilience in Long-Term Care Facilities

by Addison Shaw

In the past few decades, resilience has come together through emergency management and business continuity programs. The understanding professionals hold of program must-haves has also changed over time in response to new environmental, political, and regulatory landscapes.

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Emergency Management

Atlas Air’s Virtual Method of Collaboration and Response

by Camryn Gaudett

Eric Rynerson, Lead Safety Investigator at Atlas Air, took on the task of transforming and digitizing the organization's Emergency Response Center (ERC). Like many organizations of its kind, its growth increased the complexity of coordinating an efficient response to emergencies. Luckily, Veoci seemed to be able to help.

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Emergency Management Healthcare Utilities

Planning for All Hazards: How Texas SB1614 May Reframe Resilience for Long Term Care

by Lance Lynch

Very few organizations need to be ‘told' that they need to revisit and streamline their emergency management and business continuity plans any longer; laws reinforce the idea, and new Texas legislation puts the idea of resilience under a new light. 

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