Emergency Preparedness Planning
When healthcare supply chain managers prepare for disasters, they need to understand that disaster preparation is a whole-community, coordinated effort. Supply chain managers need to be familiar with the hazard scenarios likely to impact their facility or system as well as their community, develop supply chain-related plans to help respond to these scenarios, and if possible, begin developing an all-hazards cache of medical supplies to ensure a hospital or healthcare system is prepared for these hazard scenarios.
Health care boards can play a pivotal role to ensure their patients, employees and communities receive needed resources to heal, restore and rebuild for a better and healthier future.
Boards can provide tremendous value and crucial support to their hospitals and health systems during the COVID-19 crisis.
To meet the challenge of COVID-19, governing boards should identify actions to undertake—and avoid—to best support their health care organizations.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital and health system boards play a critical role to assure plans, policies and resources are in place.