Maryland-based TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) wants to change all that by bringing 911 into the 21st century, enabling local emergency operators the ability to receive texts and videos.
Hospitals are required by federal law to provide emergency care regardless of the ability to pay.
Federal law requires hospitals to treat patients who show up in their emergency rooms, regardless of their ability to pay for care.
Essentially, the most critical component of any emergency plan is based on the ability of an organization to communicate to their targeted recipients in a timely and effective manner.
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Less than a month later, Musharraf did step down as army chief, but only after transferring many powers -- including the ability to lift the emergency order -- to the presidency and handpicking his successor to lead Pakistan's military, which controls its nuclear arsenal.
Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat patients regardless of their ability to pay.
The storm, which struck suddenly during the busy Fourth of July holiday week, stressed the ability of park rangers and outside emergency crews to respond, Jordan said.
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This unfunded mandate stipulates that hospitals are required to provide care to anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay.
Most important is the fact that EMTALA requires all CMS-participating hospitals (which amounts to almost every hospital) to provide emergency care to all individuals seeking care irrespective of ability to pay.
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Emergency responders like the ones who are here today -- their ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded.
For many years, the Medicare program has made payments to hospitals, called Disproportionate Share Hospital payments (DSH), in order to compensate hospitals for taking care of the uninsured, because Medicare mandates through the EMTALA law that hospitals provide emergency care to everyone, including illegal immigrants, regardless of their ability to pay.
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The ability of critical facilities to carry out their mission during an emergency depends on the availability of power.
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Now FEMA is just one of 22 organizations that make up DHS. As NPR's Ari Shapiro reports, some who work in emergency management are asking whether that's hurt the government's ability to respond to natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
Connectivity: Ability to connect New Yorkers and enable communication, including for safety and emergency purposes.
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It also provides the ability for astronauts to jettison anytime from a rocket in the event of an emergency.
Jet-packs give people the ability to soar through the air like Superman while protective clothing keeps soldiers and emergency personnel safe from weapons, fire and other extreme elements.
He said he anticipates "a flood of early emergency claims" beginning Monday, but hopes the tide may be lessened by claimants' ability to file and track their claim processing online.
That would reinforce their dependence on emergency funding from the European Central Bank, which would act as further brake on the ability of Spanish banks to provide vital credit - and would represent a serious setback in the stabilisation of the currency union.
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