Hospital Emergency Rooms Are Unprepared for Terror Attack
May 6, 2008
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The nations emergency rooms and hospitals are still, nearly seven years after Sept. 11, not prepared to deal with the “surge” of patients that could be caused by a terror attack, according to a House oversight committee.
Whats worse is that its a situation that could be compounded, hospital officials from both coasts and a state disaster planner said today, if the Bush administration is able to take hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding from public and teaching hospitals.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said the changes the Bush administration is trying to make in the way the government reimburses state and local governments for the services provided by public and teaching hospitals could be “disastrous” to the nations preparedness for a terror attack and called them an abdication of responsibility.
Waxmans oversight committee conducted a survey of 34 hospitals on March 25 and found that not one was prepared at that moment on that day for a terror attack.
“The situation in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles was particularly dire.
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