From Western Washington University:
Western Washington University has received a two-year, $512,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education to partner with a number of community institutions to review, improve and enhance campus emergency management planning efforts.
The grant was given to enhance emergency preparedness within the Resilient Bellingham Consortium (RBC), a group consisting of the city’s three institutions of higher education – WWU, Bellingham Technical College and Whatcom Community College. Grant principals include WWU’s Environmental Health and Safety office; WWU Associate Professor of Psychology David Sattler; the WWU Psychology Department; Rebekah Green, associate director of the Resilience Institute at WWU’s Huxley College of the Environment; Debra Jones, vice president of Bellingham Technical College; and Ray White, vice president of Whatcom Community College.
Community partners include the City of Bellingham’s Office of Emergency Management, the Whatcom County Division of Emergency Management, the Local Emergency Planning Committee, and the Whatcom County Health Department, among others.
Members of the RBC will use the funding from the federal grant to enhance their current all-hazards emergency plans, paying special attention to the needs of those with disabilities and other groups having special issues; as well as work on topics such as homeland security, infectious disease outbreaks, and campus violence. The grant will support training for university staff and faculty in emergency management procedures and promote coordination of emergency planning and communications across departments within each institution as well as between the institutions of higher education. The effort will build upon current relationships to collaborate even more closely with local government partners and emergency management professionals within the community.
“We’ll use this funding to revitalize mechanisms to plan for disasters that address each campus’s unique challenges,” said Gayle Shipley, WWU director of Environmental Health and Safety and grant project director. “This grant provides a much-needed resource to increase our communities’ resilience. An effective response to, and recovery from, a disaster will help us maintain ongoing access to educational opportunities for our students. And more broadly, it will enhance the wellbeing of our communities beyond our campuses.”
For more information on the Resilient Bellingham Consortium or the Department of education grant, contact Gayle Shipley at (360) 650-6512.
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A Few highlights from the first 500 pages of the Healthcare Bill in congress Contact your Representatives and let them know how you feel about this. We,as a country, cannot afford another 1000 page bill to go through congresswithout being read. Another 500 pages to go. I have highlighted a few of theitems that are downright unconstitutional. Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefitsyou get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process) Page 42: The Health Choices Commissioner will decide health benefitsfor you. You will have no choice. None. Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with freehealthcare services. Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Health card. Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to allindividual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer. Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and communityorganizer health plans Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules toparticipate in a Healthcare Exchange. Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the HealthcareExchange (I.e., total government control of private plans) Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services;translation: illegal aliens Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign upindividuals for Government-run Health Care plan. Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: youhave no choice in the matter. Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. Nojudicial review is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply,private Insurers will be crushed. Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages. Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-runpublic plan. No alternatives. Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does notoffer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does notoffer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll Page 167: Any individual who doesnt have acceptable healthcare(according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income. Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes(Americans will pay for them). Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracywill have access to ALL American financial and personal records. Page 203: The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax(yes, it really says that) Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors andthe poor most affected Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, youll all be paidthe same (thanks, AMA!) Page 253: Government sets value of doctors time, their professionaljudgment, etc. Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for privatehealthcare industries. Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-drivenwheelchairs. Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing! Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deemspreventable re-admissions. Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admissionthat results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government. Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited from owning and investing inhealthcare companies Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expandwithout government approval. Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on community input: in other words,yet another payoff for ACORN. Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: Ie., rationing. Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc. Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDSindividuals. Page 379: More bureaucracy: Tele-health Advisory Committee (healthcare byphone). Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: SeniorCitizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia? Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills,durable powers=2 0of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estatetaxes ahead of time. Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources,guiding you in death. Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment;government dictates how your life ends. Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatmentas patients health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from theGOVERNMENT. Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have atend-of-life. Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN. Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs forACORN. Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Governmentintervenes in your marriage. Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining,creating and rationing those services.
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