Packaged Disaster Hospital (PDH) 3
Packaged Disaster Hospital (PDH) 3 :
During the 1950s and 1960s the Federal civil defense program developed and deployed approximately 2,500 Packaged Disaster Hospitals which These PDHs consisted of modularized, predeployed units for 50, 100, or 200 beds. In 1972, Congress discontinued its support funding for the PDH concept. The 2,500 deployed units were declared to be surplus and were discarded over the next decade. More than three decades later, however, we find ourselves in the interesting position of rediscovering, resurrecting, and refining the concept of ACSs [alternative care sites]. (AHRQ/HHS, Mass Casualty Care, 2007, 76-77)
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