Overview

There has been concern about public health and medical preparedness for disasters because private physicians are not being integrated into disaster preparedness. If frontline medical and healthcare workers are not prepared it could affect the level of morbidity and mortality experienced during a large-scale disaster.

Scenario

While developing your operations plan you realized the practice did not have a strategy for disaster response.

Instructions Part 2:

Develop an operations plan that:

• Propose a strategy that medical providers and public health agencies should include in a response plan that combines the efforts of both groups.
• Outline a strategy for the practice that demonstrates how communication with employees and patients will be maintained, how to secure patient and financial records, and ensure resources are available to care for patients before, during, and after a natural disaster or public health emergency.