Hospital Emergency Contingency Plan
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Running Head: Hospital Emergency Contingency Plan
Hospital Emergency Contingency Plan
Title:
Course Name:
Topic Name:
Professor’s Name:
Student Name:
Date:
"How can healthcare facilities effectively develop and implement a contingency plan to prepare
for natural disasters, particularly blizzards, and ensure that staff and patient care are not
compromised during such emergencies?"
Word Count Requirement: 1500-2000 words
Hospital Emergency Contingency Plan
Title:
Course Name:
Topic Name:
Professor’s Name:
Student Name:
Date:
"How can healthcare facilities effectively develop and implement a contingency plan to prepare
for natural disasters, particularly blizzards, and ensure that staff and patient care are not
compromised during such emergencies?"
Word Count Requirement: 1500-2000 words
Running Head: Hospital Emergency Contingency Plan
Introduction
Natural disasters often cause main problems which affect a population's health and hamper a
nation's socioeconomic development by challenging its inadequate financial resources in an
effort to repair damages (Rothstein Philip J, 1993). The most essential part of disaster
preparedness is preparation in advance, and contingency plans are the most dependable way of
accomplishing this. Contingency plan and different disaster planning will be required depending
on geographical place such as earthquakes in the western area, and hurricanes in the southern
area, and serious snow storms in the northern area. Within healthcare facility leadership must be
cognoscente of the future blizzard, and a contingency plan must be give assurance for harm
reduction during this internal and external disaster hazard. Thing plan aims to prepare an
organization to react well to an emergency and its potential caring impact. A contingency
planning development mostly involves making good decisions in development about the
management of financial and human resources, communications and organization procedures,
and being alert of a range of logistical and technical responses (Rothstein Philip J, 1993).
Brief Discussion
A contingency plan is essential in a careful organization if those involved in a disaster are to
respond successfully. The most important characteristic of disaster management is useful
planning in future (Andersson HC & Thoene J, 2006). So, a contingency plan for external and
internal disaster must be implemented and created long before the incident occurs. Regrettably,
while the valuable planning phase should be measured the essential step in disaster planning,
also it is the step that generally receives the least awareness. In the particular case study
reviewed, the opportunity of experiencing in the winter period a blizzard is magnified, and as a
Introduction
Natural disasters often cause main problems which affect a population's health and hamper a
nation's socioeconomic development by challenging its inadequate financial resources in an
effort to repair damages (Rothstein Philip J, 1993). The most essential part of disaster
preparedness is preparation in advance, and contingency plans are the most dependable way of
accomplishing this. Contingency plan and different disaster planning will be required depending
on geographical place such as earthquakes in the western area, and hurricanes in the southern
area, and serious snow storms in the northern area. Within healthcare facility leadership must be
cognoscente of the future blizzard, and a contingency plan must be give assurance for harm
reduction during this internal and external disaster hazard. Thing plan aims to prepare an
organization to react well to an emergency and its potential caring impact. A contingency
planning development mostly involves making good decisions in development about the
management of financial and human resources, communications and organization procedures,
and being alert of a range of logistical and technical responses (Rothstein Philip J, 1993).
Brief Discussion
A contingency plan is essential in a careful organization if those involved in a disaster are to
respond successfully. The most important characteristic of disaster management is useful
planning in future (Andersson HC & Thoene J, 2006). So, a contingency plan for external and
internal disaster must be implemented and created long before the incident occurs. Regrettably,
while the valuable planning phase should be measured the essential step in disaster planning,
also it is the step that generally receives the least awareness. In the particular case study
reviewed, the opportunity of experiencing in the winter period a blizzard is magnified, and as a
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