TY - JOUR
T1 - A 3-year Health Care Coalition Experience in Advancing Hospital Evacuation Preparedness
AU - Lowe, John J.
AU - Hansen, Keith F.
AU - Sanger, Kristine K.
AU - Obaid, Jannah M.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - This report outlines a 3-year health care coalition effort to advance and test community capacity for a large-scale hospital evacuation. The multi-year effort utilized a variety workshops, seminars, webinars, tabletops, functional exercises, and culminated with a full-scale exercise testing hospital evacuation. While most hospital evacuation exercises focus on internal movement of patients, this exercise process tested command-level decision making and it tested external partners such as transportation agencies, law enforcement, receiving hospitals, and local emergency management. This process delivered key coalition-building activities and offered a variety of training and exercise opportunities to assist a number of organizations, all at different stages of hospital evacuation planning. The 2012 Hospital Preparedness Program outlined the incorporation of health care coalition activities to transform individual organization preparedness to community-level readiness. This report outlines a health care coalition effort to deliver training and exercises to advance community capacity for a large-scale hospital evacuation.
AB - This report outlines a 3-year health care coalition effort to advance and test community capacity for a large-scale hospital evacuation. The multi-year effort utilized a variety workshops, seminars, webinars, tabletops, functional exercises, and culminated with a full-scale exercise testing hospital evacuation. While most hospital evacuation exercises focus on internal movement of patients, this exercise process tested command-level decision making and it tested external partners such as transportation agencies, law enforcement, receiving hospitals, and local emergency management. This process delivered key coalition-building activities and offered a variety of training and exercise opportunities to assist a number of organizations, all at different stages of hospital evacuation planning. The 2012 Hospital Preparedness Program outlined the incorporation of health care coalition activities to transform individual organization preparedness to community-level readiness. This report outlines a health care coalition effort to deliver training and exercises to advance community capacity for a large-scale hospital evacuation.
KW - disaster response
KW - emergency preparedness
KW - evacuation exercises
KW - health care coalition
KW - hospital evacuation
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U2 - 10.1017/S1049023X16000996
DO - 10.1017/S1049023X16000996
M3 - Article
C2 - 27640879
AN - SCOPUS:84988446714
SN - 1049-023X
VL - 31
SP - 658
EP - 662
JO - Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
JF - Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
IS - 6
ER -