Wire heat alerts to a hotline run by a trusted aging nonprofit, with nurse triage and home visits
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Locally calibrated heat alerts that trigger a delivery chain, not just a broadcast: a hotline staffed by a trusted aging-services nonprofit, nurse triage, field home visits, homeless outreach, and neighbor buddy systems, so vulnerable people are found and helped during each alert
Philadelphia, USA
SuccessCity of Philadelphia Department of Public Health with the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA Heatline) · since 1995 · City
In 1995 Philadelphia launched the first Hot Weather-Health Watch/Warning System in the United States, with alert triggers calibrated on the city's own mortality-weather history. A declared heat emergency activates the H…
Lives saved 1995-98 (Ebi et al. 2004)expected heat mortality without the system → 117deaths avoided
Program cost for three years (1995-98)210000USD
$210K · City of Philadelphia · 1 source