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Hospital Surge Preparedness and Response Index

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2021

Nicole M. Thomasian Open the ORCID record for Nicole M. Thomasian [Opens in a new window] ,
Syra Madad ,
John L. Hick ,
Megan L. Ranney  and
Paul D. Biddinger
Nicole M. Thomasian
Affiliation:
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, USA Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Syra Madad*
Affiliation:
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, USA System-Wide Special Pathogens Program, New York City Health + Hospitals, New York, NY, USA
John L. Hick
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Megan L. Ranney
Affiliation:
Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Brown University School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Paul D. Biddinger
Affiliation:
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
*
Corresponding author: Syra Madad, Email: syra_madad@hks.harvard.edu.
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Abstract

The Hospital Surge Preparedness and Response Index is an all-hazards template developed by a group of emergency management and disaster medicine experts from the United States. The objective of the Hospital Surge Preparedness and Response Index is to improve planning by linking action items to institutional triggers across the surge capacity continuum. This responder tool is a non-exhaustive, high-level template: administrators should tailor these elements to their individual institutional protocols and constraints for optimal efficiency. The Hospital Surge Preparedness and Response Index can be used to provide administrators with a snapshot of their facility’s current service capacity in order to promote efficiency and situational awareness both internally and among regional partners.

Keywords

The 4 “S” domainsdomains of hospital service capacitystaffingsuppliesspacesystems
Type
Responder Tools
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , June 2021 , pp. 398 - 401
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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