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2. Federal Emergency Management Agency - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.fema.gov. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979. [1] The agency's primary purpose is to ...

3. Disaster medical assistance team - Wikipedia

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   A Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) is a specialized group under the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. [1] These teams are composed of professional medical personnel including physicians, physician assistants (PA), nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, and logistical and ...

4. FEMA Public Assistance - Wikipedia

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   The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Public Assistance Program (PA Program) provides grants for disaster relief aid to state government agencies, local governments, federally recognized Indian tribes, and private non-profit organisations in the wake of a disaster. [1] The program provides grants for two types of disaster recovery work.

5. What Is a Community Health Worker? - WebMD

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   Community health workers are public health workers. Their goal is to connect communities with their health care systems and state health departments. Community health worker (CHW) is an umbrella ...

6. COVID-19 funeral assistance: What to know about the FEMA ...

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   FEMA's funeral assistance program launches Monday, April 12. The agency is paying a maximum of $9,000 per funeral and of $35,500 per application.

7. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act

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   The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act) [1] is a 1988 United States federal law designed to bring an orderly and systematic means of federal natural disaster assistance for state and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to aid citizens. Congress's intention was to encourage states ...