Incident Command System (ICS) – Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

      The Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized approach to the command, control, and coordination of emergency response providing a common hierarchy within which responders from multiple agencies can be effective. ICS was initially developed to address problems of inter-agency responses to wildfires in California and Arizona but is now a component […]

Nursing Home Incident Command System (NHICS)

      The Incident Command System is part of the emergency management system in many levels (federal, state, and local). Every significant incident or event, whether large or small, and whether it is even defined as an emergency, requires certain management functions to be performed. Building on the work of the Florida Health Care […]