HHS Secretary Azar Declares Public Health Emergency in Georgia Due to Hurricane Michael
"We are working closely with state health authorities and private sector partners from hospitals and other healthcare facilities to save lives and protect public health after Hurricane Michael," Secretary Azar said. "This declaration will help ensure that our fellow Americans who rely on Medicare and Medicaid have continuous access to the care they need."
To assist state and local officials in lifesaving efforts for medically vulnerable people, HHS also provided state health officials with information on Medicare beneficiaries who rely on dialysis or use special medical equipment at home, such as oxygen concentrators, in the potentially impacted areas. For these people power outages can be life threatening within hours. CMS also activated the Kidney Community Emergency Response Program to monitor dialysis access and needs of these facilities after the hurricane.
HHS moved about 400 medical and public health personnel along with their caches of medical equipment into impacted areas, ready to respond to medical and public health needs in
Some of these medical personnel are working with
HHS teams also can provide basic medical care for evacuees at shelters, help the health department with disease surveillance, offer behavioral health support for residents and responders, and more. HHS incident managers are working with state officials to determine whether federal medical and public health support is needed in
To assist residents in the impacted area in coping with the stress of the disasters, the
Additionally, the
Secretary Azar declared a public health emergency in
Public health and safety information for Hurricane Michael can be found on the HHS emergency website, https://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/2018-Severe-Storms/Pages/default.aspx.
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