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Transforming Health Care Coalitions From Hospitals to Whole of Community: Lessons Learned From Two Large Health Care Organizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2015

Scott Cormier ,
Michael Wargo  and
Walter Winslow
Scott Cormier*
Affiliation:
Medxcel Facilities Management, Indianapolis, Indiana
Michael Wargo
Affiliation:
NCR Emergency Operations Group, LLC, Washington, DC
Walter Winslow
Affiliation:
MESH Coalition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Scott Cormier, BA, CHEP, NRP, Vice President Emergency Management, EOC and Safety, Medxcel Facilities Management, 5451 Lakeview Parkway S. Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46268 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Abstract

A health care emergency preparedness coalition (coalition) is a group of health care organizations, public safety agencies, and public health partners that join forces for the common cause of making their communities safer, healthier, and more resilient. Coalitions have been characterized as being focused on hospital systems instead of the health care of the community as a whole. We discuss 2 examples of coalition partners that use a more inclusive approach to planning, response, and recovery. The first is a large health care system spread across 23 states, and the other is a public safety agency in northeast Pennsylvania that took the lead to address the preparedness and response toward a large influx of burn patients and grew to encompass all aspects of community health care. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;9:712–716)

Keywords

disaster planningcommunity health planningdecision makingorganizationaldisastersemergency preparedness
Type
Concepts in Disaster Medicine
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 9 , Issue 6 , December 2015 , pp. 712 - 716
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2015 

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