Emergency Readiness

Emergency Readiness: Lessons learned from the field: Integrated Community-wide Approaches

Lessons Learned

Integrated Community-wide Approaches

  • , March 2005
    Study by the RAND Corporation
  • , 2005
    Case Example by the National Association of County & City Health Officials
    This program is innovative in that it takes the President’s recommendation of a Medical Reserve Corps and realistically distributes authority and responsibility throughout the medical community to minimize demand on community hospitals, which are already operating at near capacity and unable to accept much additional surge capacity.
  • , 2005
    Case Example by the National Association of County & City Health Officials
    The Healthcare Emergency Response Coalition of Palm Beach County (HERC) is a Coalition of representatives from the Health Department, Emergency Management, Fire Rescue, Sheriff, Red Cross, and area hospitals that have come together to work to prepare the community to respond to a public health emergency or disaster events including terrorist attacks.
  • , 2005
    Case Example by the National Association of County & City Health Officials
    Marion City and County Health Departments have established a Mass Vaccination/Prophylaxis Clinic (MVPC)
  • , March 2003
    By the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
    This white paper details recommendations for creating and sustaining community-wide emergency preparedness systems.
  • , August 21, 2000
    Mountain-Valley EMS Agency (California)
    Final Report of a project to develop disaster medical system standards to assist local EMS agencies in the development of local response plans.
  • , June 1999
    Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System