Simultaneous disasters result in greater hospital preparedness

✍ Scribed by Calandra, Paul R.

• Book ID: 102352295
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2009
• Weight: 386 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0899-1073
• DOI: 10.1002/jhrm.5600070406

✦ Synopsis

The following article was written by William E. Gates, an associate in the international consulting engineering firm of Dames e3 Moore, Los Angeles. He is a licensed structural engineer in California and Washington. Gates has designed private and government hospital facilities for earthquake and has investigated the earthquake vulnerability of numerous hospitals for earthquake insurance and loss control programs.