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Hospital Strategic Preparedness Planning: The New Imperative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Peter M. Ginter ,
W. Jack Duncan  and
Maziar Abdolrasulnia
Peter M. Ginter*
Affiliation:
School of Public Health and South Central Center for Public Health Preparedness, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
W. Jack Duncan
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Management and South Central Center for Public Health Preparedness, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Maziar Abdolrasulnia
Affiliation:
School of Public Health and South Central Center for Public Health Preparedness, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
*
Peter M. Ginter, PhD Professor and Chair School of Public Health University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Health Care Organization and Policy 1530 3rd Avenue South, RPHB 330 Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0022 USA E-mail: pginter@uab.edu
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Abstract

Strategic preparedness planning is an important new imperative for many hospitals. Strategic preparedness planning goes beyond traditional product/ market strategic planning by focusing on disaster prevention, containment, and response roles. Hospitals, because of their unique mission, size, complexity, the types of materials they handle, and the types of patients they encounter, are especially vulnerable to natural and human-initiated disasters. In addition, when disasters occur, hospitals must develop well-conceived first responder (receiver) strategies. This paper argues the case for strategic preparedness planning for hospitals and proposes a process for this relatively new and much needed type of planning.

Keywords

assessmentdisastershospitalsmanagementpreparednessrisk managementresponsestrategic planning
Type
Comprehensive Review
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 2007 , pp. 529 - 536
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2007

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