With Ida intensifying and threatening to hit the Gulf Coast as a category 4 hurricane, Healthcare Ready is activating our network of partners to help prepare and support the region’s healthcare and public health response in advance of this catastrophic event. What started as an informal...
We know that an important aspect of successful healthcare supply chain design is the ability to prepare for likely pressures, but what about something that is nearly impossible to predict, like a pandemic? A pandemic can strike without warning — and often with many unknowns about how...
Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we are now experiencing hope as more and more people become fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but many questions still remain around what you can do once you are fully vaccinated and what treatments are available if you test...
Over the past decade, disaster preparedness efforts have focused heavily on improving the preparedness of individual households over communities and networks. The preparedness gap between communities and individuals leaves underserved groups, such as poor communities and communities of color, exposed to greater risks from disaster...
There are now three COVID-19 vaccines available, and with them, hope. Some people are scrambling to get the “best” one. We’ve heard from many of our nation’s top experts in the past few weeks including Dr. Fauci, “I would recommend, get the first one you...
The Healthcare Supply Chain & Its Role in Disasters When disaster strikes, you can count on the healthcare supply chain to be as resilient as the communities it is designed to serve. Through Healthcare Ready’s vast partnership network of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, healthcare providers, and local,...
Situational awareness is key for responding to any disaster. But situational awareness gets complicated during pandemics like novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), where the situation not only changes constantly, but it impacts entire continents at a time. That’s why Healthcare Ready has created the interactive US...
Healthcare supply chain management is a critical part of any disaster response. From natural hazards to disease outbreaks, we rely on a stable supply chain to create and move response supplies and to maintain standard operations for the millions who rely on products like pharmaceuticals for chronic health needs. When hurricanes hit Florida, for...