The Georgia Emergency Management Agency alerted local hospitals to prepare for up to 100 casualties.

Mr. Codey said that hospitals that failed to alert other hospitals about physicians they had disciplined should be sanctioned.

Health officials are alerting hospitals and nursing homes around the city to an unexplained bacterial outbreak linked to three deaths and to illnesses in 35 patients.

The researchers used methods the federal Agency for Health Care Quality and Research created to alert hospitals to problems.

The entry of Parkway, the owner of the Gleneagles group of hospitals, could alert other private hospitals that there is a ready buyer in town.

Emergency medical services are to be deployed at athletic events, and the Greater New York Hospital Association will alert local hospitals to be prepared to expand emergency room services.

The company said that in consultation with the French authorities, it would initiate an "urgent safety restriction" to alert doctors and hospitals and would change the label on the drug to reflect the new restriction.

The researcher, Dr. Heidi S. Weissmann, a former associate professor of radiology at Einstein, called the settlement "a bittersweet victory" that should alert other medical schools and hospitals that they could pay a high price for tolerating discrimination against women and scientific misconduct.

Seven emergency control centers were set up across the country and officials alerted hospitals and fire crews about the approaching storm.

And the American Society of Health System Pharmacists is creating an electronic system that will alert hospitals about new shortages.