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Crisis Communication Tips

When a syphilis outbreak takes place in the community, most often the state or local health department will execute a communication plan to inform key segments of the community about the issue. But as an organization supporting the Syphilis Elimination Effort SEE, what should one do or how can one...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, crisis communication, health care

White papers 2005-03-07

Crisis / Risk Communication and Public Health Emergencies

This article discusses about crisis communication. There are various ways of increasing disaster risk. Some of these include: Increasing population density, increased settlement in high-risks areas, increased technological hazards and dependency and many more. It has also been observed that bad communication adds to crisis, and various reasons could be...

Tags: Corporate communications, crisis communication, bioterrorism, public health

White papers 2003-01-01

Crisis Communication: To Be Effective, Treat it Like Water

When one is prepared, a crisis is a perfect opportunity to spread the word about public health. Paper explains that to do in a crisis is communicate with a variety of audiences at a time when there are multiple demands on attention. At such a time, it helps to be...

Tags: Corporate communications, crisis communication, public health, tool

White papers 2002-07-01

Additional Resources

Investor Relations Veterans Launch Los Angeles-Based Financial Profiles

LOS ANGELES -- Investor relations veterans Moira Conlon and Jonathan Destler today announced the launch of Financial Profiles, Inc., an investor relations and financial communications firm based in Los Angeles. Financial Profiles was formed to offer public and pre-IPO companies strategic communications counsel and program execution. The agency...

Articles 2008-07-01

L.A. seeing more people living out of cars

LOS ANGELES -- Having lost her job and her three-bedroom house, Darlene Knoll has joined the legions of downwardly mobile who are four wheels away from homelessness. She is living out of her shabby 1978 RV, and every night she has to look for a place to...

Articles 2008-06-24

Utah urged to fill gaps in health-care system

Built-in disparities in Utah's health-care system -- from the thousands of poor and minorities who are continually underserved to a teenager who committed suicide last month because he couldn't get the help he needed -- dominated Wednesday's discussion of the Legislature's Health and Human Services Interim Committee. ...

Articles 2008-06-21

Austrian Healthcare Specialist B&K Joins IPREX

ATLANTA -- IPREX, the worldwide corporation of independent public relations firms, has increased its European presence to 25 offices with the election of new partner Bettschart & Kofler (B&K), the Vienna-based communication agency specializing in medicine, health, science, social services and business. Established in 1996, B&K is run...

Articles 2008-06-10

Senator Barack Obama Answers Questions by BlogHer Community on Camera on Eve of Oregon Primary

Presidential Hopeful Is the First to Address Key Policy Questions on Iraq, Healthcare, and the Economy Developed by Leading Online Community of Women Who Blog PALO ALTO, Calif. -- BlogHer, Inc. (www.blogher.com), one of the top women's online networks and the Web's number-one guide to blogs by women,...

Articles 2008-05-20

Transforming Healthcare: Integrated Healthcare Management Engages All Constituents to Drive Improved Communication and Efficiency

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- The TriZetto Group Inc. (NASDAQ: TZIX) announces the availability of industry expert and TriZetto Chief Solutions Officer Dan Spirek to discuss how payers can repair the current healthcare affordability crisis by utilizing Integrated Healthcare Management IHM. IHM is the systematic application of processes and shared information...

Articles 2008-05-14

Speaker-Elect Karen Bass and Assemblymember Mary Hayashi to Promote Quality Dental Care for Children

Clinic tour will examine and discuss affordable access to dental services HAYWARD, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Assembly Speaker-Elect Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) and Assemblymember Mary Hayashi (D-Hayward) will tour the dental clinic at Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, Inc. on Thursday, May 8th to explore ways to...

Articles 2008-05-07

Making the pieces fit: how to avoid finance hiring mistakes

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SOON AFTER DAVID Dreyer joined AMN Healthcare in 2004, he faced a personnel crisis. One of his divisional controllers was isolating himself from the team, not communicating with direct reports effectively, and hampering the productivity of the finance department. "His reaction to really minor...

Articles 2008-05-01

MedeFile Applauds U.S. Presidential Hopefuls for Advocating Widespread Adoption of Electronic Medical Records

To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Dodi Handy, President and CEO, or Daniel Conway, ChiefStrategist, both of Elite Financial Communications Group, LLC-EliteMedia Group, +1-407-585-1080, mdfi@efcg.net, for MedeFileInternational, Inc. CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MedeFileInternational, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: MDFI), a companyspecializing in portable electronic medical records managementsolutions, today formally...

Articles 2008-02-04

Hillmorton in crisis - managers; HEALTHCARE

Mental health workers fear efforts to combat chronic overcrowdingat Christchurch's Hillmorton Hospital are failing, with the publicstill at risk. Documents dating back to last April, leaked to The Press, containconcerns from Canterbury District Health Board CDHB managers whodescribe the situation at the region's only acute in-patient mentalhealth service as...

Articles 2008-01-09

New York Doctors Use MedLink TV Network to Voice Healthcare Concerns to Patients

MedLink International, Inc. (OTCBB: MLKNA) ispleased to announce that the New York County Medical Society has begunairing information about the medical liability crisis and its impact onpatient access to care on the MedLink TV network. The Society, representingManhattan physicians, is now able to share information with more than250,000 patients a...

Articles 2007-12-13

EUR1.75bn BLACK HOLE IN BUDGET

FINANCE minister Brian Cowen has a EUR1.75billion hole in the middle of his Budget plans. Cowen is expected to deliver one of the toughest Budgets of the past 15 years on Wednesday because of plummeting tax receipts. The EUR1.75billion fall is mostly...

Articles 2007-12-02

State short of medical workers

California needs to act quickly and dramatically to solve a serious health-care worker shortage, according to a study released this week. California's 109 community colleges in particular need to expand their ability to offer classes in nursing and other allied health fields, including dental hygiene, physical...

Articles 2007-11-09

Phyhealth Provides Business Update on the Third Quarter of 2007; On Track to Launch First Community-Based HMO

MIAMI -- Physicians Healthcare Management Group, Inc. Phyhealth (Pink Sheets: PHYH), a developer of health maintenance organizations HMOs in partnership with physicians, today provided a business update for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007. Mr. Robert Trinka, chairman and chief executive officer, stated, "With each passing week...

Articles 2007-11-07

Health-care worker shortage nearing a crisis

California needs to act quickly and dramatically to solve a serious health-care worker shortage, according to a study released today. Researchers with the Oakland-based Campaign for College Opportunity concluded that California's 109 community colleges in particular need to expand classes in nursing and other allied health...

Articles 2007-11-05

AHRQ Report Recommends Use of Existing Call Centers to Expand Communications in Public Health Emergencies

To: HEALTH EDITORS Contact: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality PublicAffairs, +1-301-427-1539, +1-301-427-1245 ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S.Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for HealthcareResearch and Quality today released Adapting Community Call Centersfor Crisis Support: A Model for Home- based Care and Monitoring, anew report...

Articles 2007-10-25

Today's hotline addresses help available for aging folks' caregivers

After 42 years of marriage, your husband develops Alzheimer's. Or your mom suffers a debilitating stroke. You've gone from companion or child to full-time caregiver. And the map for this particular journey isn't always easy to follow. If you can find it. "Almost the greatest challenge is...

Articles 2007-10-13