California wildfires and healthcare: Compiled articles
California wildfires and healthcare: Compiled articles
Compiled from various news sources; 1/9/25
Click on links below to go to the source articles.
- Maps: See how large the California wildfires are; NBC News with frequent updates
- Nursing home residents dodging embers, smoke amid LA County wildfire evacuations; McKnights Long-Term Care News
- Nursing home in Pasadena evacuated as thick smoke from wildfire approaches; NBC
- Dramatic video shows assisted living facility evacuated as wildfires near; CNN
- Hospitals and California wildfires: What to know; Becker's Hospital Review
- 'It was a hellscape': The challenge of evacuating Los Angeles during wildfires; BBC
- Teladoc offers free virtual care for those affected by L.A. fires; KTLA 5, Los Angeles
- Wildfires Can Leave Lasting Psychological Scars; The New York Times
- How to safely evacuate a wildfire; Associated Press
- Resources posted by the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, repost of same article from 1/9/25
Editor's note: To identify hospice organizations in affected areas, start with the National Hospice Locator, provided to the public by National Hospice Analytics. We send support and rally our national hospice and palliative community to do what you can, where you are. Tune into your employees, volunteers and the patients you serve who have family and close friends in California's affected areas. This is not a time to interfere with the critical, immediate "Response" processes underway (within the 5 Emergency Disaster processes of Prevention - Mitigation - Preparedness - Response - Recovery). This is a time to start with your own people and to be preparing for helpful strategies ahead. To evaluate your own Emergency Disaster Plan, click here for the CMS.gov Emergency Preparedness Rule. Click here for Wisconsin's CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule Toolkit: Hospices.