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Emergency Management in Health Care: An All-Hazards Approach

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5th Ed.

Joint Commission Resources

Carolyn Schierhorn, MA

ISBN-13: 978-1-63585-209-7

eISBN-13: 978-1-63585-210-3

Emergency Medicine, Healthcare Administration

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Public health crises, such as COVID-19, natural disasters from wildfires to tornados, and human-caused emergencies, including mass shootings and cyberattacks, has risen in recent years, putting healthcare organizations on high alert. Because of the unpredictability of emergencies, The Joint Commission champions an all-hazards approach to emergency management (EM), reflected in its requirements.

Emergency Management in Health Care: All All-Hazards Approach, 5th edition, is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource to help all types of healthcare organizations plan for a wide range of emergencies. This new edition has been completely revised to reflect The Joint Commission’s new “Emergency Management” chapter for hospitals and critical access hospitals (effective July 1, 2022) and continues to address the EM planning needs of all healthcare settings.

Key topics in the 5th edition:

  • • All EM standards across health care settings, with a special focus on the new EM requirements for hospitals and critical access hospitals
  • • Hazard vulnerability analysis
  • • The Emergency Operations Plan, including the six critical EM areas: communications, staff management, patient care, resources, and assets, safety, and security, and utilities management
  • • The four phases of EM: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery
  • • Continuity of operations plan
  • • Disaster recovery and after-action reports
  • • Staff education and training as well as emergency response exercises and drills
  • • EM program evaluation and improvement

Key Features:

  • • More than 30 downloadable, customizable tools, including standards compliance checklists, sample EM policies and procedures, and worksheets and forms to use during the emergency
  • • EM resources from authoritative entities

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