Extreme Heat Events: Lessons from Seattle’s Record Breaking Summers

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This document provides guidance from healthcare stakeholders who shared how lessons learned during the heat dome event in 2021 informed a 2022 response and how robust regional and local collaboration and communications during the pandemic facilitated connections during the heat wave in the summer of 2022. This is a whole community lessons learned document that captures an interview on the real-world extreme heat events in Seattle and how the healthcare system and hospitals responded to these events.

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Focus Area: Severe Weather

Audiences: Emergency Managers; EMS Clinicians; Nurses; Physicians

Emergency Management Stage: Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Keywords: Disaster Planning; Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services; Health Facility Planning; Public Health Administration; Strategic Planning; Extreme Heat; Climate Change; Extreme Environments

Institutions: ASPR TRACIE

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