Kirkland, Wash. – Alaska Structures® (Alaska) is prepositioning a 625-person housing facility and a 650-person dining facility in Poland. A 50-bed medical facility from BLU-MED Response Systems (BLU-MED, a division of Alaska Structures) is also included. Scheduled to be delivered […]
Field hospitals play a critically important role in disaster response, from natural calamities like floods or hurricanes to violent conflicts. These facilities are the primary drivers for reducing the human life consequences of disaster and helping survivors recover more quickly. […]
Triage tents have become essential recently due to patient surges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals and clinics around the world have seen higher admission spikes than ever before. This puts immense pressure on healthcare systems to tend to those […]
Suffolk County in New York has recently ramped up its mass vaccination efforts with the help of a mobile medical facility from BLU-MED Response Systems®. The mobile medical facility sits outside the Dennison building in Hauppauge, itself a vaccination site, […]
To help treat COVID-19 patients, alternate care sites are being used across the nation. Alternative care facilities offer a quick way to provide urgent medical care to patients during hospital surges. However, it is important to still take proper safety […]
Since March 2020, healthcare providers have faced overwhelming demand for COVID-19 treatment and testing. But what often goes unnoticed are the creative solutions they’ve used to meet those demands. For example, several hospitals teamed up with college campuses across the […]
It’s no secret that COVID-19 took hospitals by storm this year. Many hospitals expanded their facilities to accommodate the overflow of patients. But what will become of those facilities once the pandemic has subsided? One of the major advantages of […]
Mobile hospitals have been a crucial part of every war in history. From ancient battles and sieges to the combat support hospitals that followed troops throughout Europe during World War II, mobile field hospitals and evacuation hospitals have saved countless […]
Every pandemic in history has been the same in two key ways: (1) each has caught humanity off guard and (2) quickly overrun the existing medical infrastructure. Time and again, this has left healthcare organizations, hospitals, clinics, emergency response teams, […]
Over recent years, the U.S. has seen a surge in trauma centers opening up as hospitals expand their offerings to treat critically injured patients while also increasing their bottom line. At the same time, dangerous remote work operations and emergency […]
The novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 has been an eye-opener for hospitals around the nation and the world that did not have the infrastructure to accommodate such a sudden increase in demand. Faced with patients in need of urgent care […]
Yesterday, West Virginia reported its first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). All 50 States now have confirmed cases. The U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams recently stated, “We are at a critical inflection point in this country…”. His comment was later followed by, “When you look at the projections, there’s every chance that we could be Italy.”