The administration has sought "to enhance national resilience — to withstand disruption, adapt to change and rapidly recover," said Brian Kamoie, senior director for preparedness policy at the National Security Council.
"It is an issue that we need to work on," said Omar Afflick, the Jamaican government's acting senior director for preparedness and emergency operations.
"We were getting a lot of our information from the same source that everybody else was: open source, CNN, Japanese television," Patricia Milligan, a senior N.R.C. emergency-preparedness specialist, recalled.
John W. Magaw, the senior adviser for terrorism preparedness to the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will be nominated as under secretary of transportation security, Mr. Mineta said.
B6 TRANSPORTATION SECURITY -- The White House intends to nominate John W. Magwa, the senior adviser for terrorism preparedness to the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to take charge of the new Transportation Security Administration.
Although they generally did agree with other ACGME duty hour restrictions, they felt that currently, there were simply too many restrictions and that these restrictions resulted in negative effects on resident education, preparedness for senior roles, and no tangible benefits to resident wellness.
"We are at a high level of preparedness," said Mark Ackermann, the senior vice president at St . Vincents.
She said the company had named William J. Quinlan, a 25-year employee there, to the newly created position of senior officer in charge of emergency preparedness.
But if doubts are building over actions of senior crew members and the ship's preparedness for coping with an emergency, it appears that the locals, as well as the rescue services, reacted swiftly and with compassion.
In addition, three focus groups (one per site) were conducted with senior clinicians who assess learning portfolios, to determine areas of preparedness, and lack of preparedness, for practice following assessment of the portfolios.
