Crisis in Mississippi: The Emergency Management and Hospital Response to the City of Jackson’s Water Outage

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• Damon Darsey; Jim Craig

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This report describes how Jackson, Mississippi faced a major water crisis in 2022 when flooding and equipment failures left the city without safe running water for weeks. Hospitals struggled to care for patients without enough water, but some had backup wells. Emergency teams worked together to restore service and provide bottled water. The crisis showed the need for better planning, backup systems, and ways to help staff and vulnerable people during long outages. It also highlighted problems with fire safety, dialysis care, and keeping hospitals open when there is no clean water available.

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Focus Area: Infrastructure Failure

Audience: Emergency Managers

Emergency Management Stage: Response

Keywords: Crisis Intervention; Critical Care; Disasters; Floods; Health Services Accessibility; Hospital Administration; Hospitals; Mississippi; Patient Transfer; Public Health Practice; Water Supply; Infection Control; Water Purification

Institutions: ASPR TRACIE

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