Healthcare Preparedness and Response
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This plan assures development of incident-specific priorities and guidance for the delivery of healthcare, including use of potentially scarce medical resources, depending on the scope and nature of the emergency or disaster by activating the Medical Advisory Team and Subject Matter Experts to recommend and provide guidance related to policy, procedures, and potential participation in the SEOC.
This assessment tool was developed to assist hospitals in revising and updating existing disaster plans or in the development of new plans.
The ASPR TRACIE Evaluation of Hazard Vulnerability Assessment Tools provides a comparison chart showing the similarities and differences among several of the primary and other sample hazard vulnerability tools used by public health and healthcare organizations, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Threat and Hazard Identification Risk Assessment (THIRA).
The 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and Response Capabilities document outlines the high-level objectives that the nation’s health care delivery system, including HCCs and individual health care organizations, should undertake to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies.