Health care system preparedness ensures capacity and capability for critical public health and medical services to reduce the potential for adverse health impacts during an emergency event.
Health Care Coalitions
Community and hospital preparedness helps local health care providers work together to plan for potential risks and understand what resources are available in their area.
FLHealth Response
The Florida Department of Health is responsible for coordinating public health preparedness efforts statewide, and provides a central location to access support preparedness and response activities.
General Resources
Training and Exercise Resources for Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation
The following organizations and agencies provide preparedness and response trainings and exercises related to the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP).ย Information includes tools and resources that meet the U.S. Department of Homeland Security exercise requirements.
Training Resources
- American Hospital Associationย
- Collaborative Disaster Planning Processes for Hospitals and Emergency Management
American College of Emergency Physicians and FEMA offer free online training on the development and maintenance of integrative disaster plans. - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (hospitals, treatment centers, and public health partners)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Center for Domestic Preparedness Training Course Listing
- HazMat Emergency Preparedness Training and Tools for Responders
- NIMS Implementation Guidance for the National Hospital Preparedness
Exercise Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Resources for hospitals to use for planning emergency response exercises to develop, conduct, and evaluate emergency exercises. - HSEEP Exercise and Evaluation Program
Preparedness Partners
State
- Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
- Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Hospital Information
- Florida Association of Community Health Centers
- Florida Crisis Response Team
- Florida Division of Emergency Management
- Florida Emergency Preparedness Association
- Florida Health Care Association, Long Term Care Providers
- Florida Health Care Coalitions
- Florida Hospital Association
- Florida Hospitals and Medical Centers Listing, Agape Center
Federal
- Administration for Strategic Preparedness & Response
- Agency for Health Care Research & Quality
- American Health Care Association Emergency Preparedness
- American Hospital Association
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CDC, Sample Mutual Aid Agreement
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Medical Reserve Corps
Reports and Publications
Building Community Resilience for Children and Families
Guidebook that provides information about building community resilience and helping communities improve their capacity to respond effectively to natural or man-made disasters or acts of terrorism.
Coastal Resilience Indexย
Community self-assessment tool to provide community leaders with a simple an inexpensive method of predicting if their community will reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning after a disaster.” After completing the self-assessment, communities can calculate their resilience index.
Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative
Book addressing the issue of increasing the nation’s resilience to disaster. It provides goals, baseline conditions or performance metrics for national resilience and outlines additional information, data, gaps and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation’s resilience to disasters.
Homeland Security Advisory Council Community Resilience Task Force Recommendations
Report from the task force providing findings and recommendations for building national resilience, June 2011.
Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-8: National Preparedness
Presidential directive aimed at strengthening the security and resilience of the U.S. through systematic preparation for the threats that pose the greatest risk to the security of the nation.
At-Risk, Behavioral Health & Community Resilience
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Emergency site providing subject matter expertise, education and coordination to ensure that the functional needs of at-risk individuals and behavioral health issues are integrated in public health and medical emergency preparedness, response and recovery activities.