General
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.