Hospital Incident Command System: Preparedness and application for COVID-19 response in California’s Central Valley

David Matear and Rejeanna Hunter
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David Matear: California Department of Public Health, USA
Rejeanna Hunter: Memorial Medical Center, USA

Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2021, vol. 14, issue 3, 288-304

Abstract: This paper describes the types of emergency and disaster events that could potentially impact the healthcare system and the need for healthcare executives to be knowledgeable and able to respond to emergencies quickly and appropriately. It discusses the barriers to the engagement of hospital and healthcare senior executive teams in emergency preparedness activities and proposes a pragmatic approach for the engagement of healthcare executive teams. Drawing on the experience of hospitals in California’s Central Valley, the article hypothesises that a full implementation of this programme would have supported hospital executive teams to provide a more effective and efficient response to the management of COVID-19.

Keywords: emergency preparedness; executives; healthcare; hospital; Incident Command System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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