Content Description
Public health crises, such as COVID-19, natural disasters from wildfires to tornados, and human-caused emergencies, including mass shootings and cyberattacks, have been on the rise in recent years, putting health care 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 health care 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 health care 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
Key Audience:
Health care emergency managers in all types of health care organizations
Safety managers and officers
Security chiefs
Facilities managers
Clinical and administrative leaders
Staff educators
Community emergency management planners
About Joint Commission
The mission of The Joint Commission is to continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value. Its vision is that all people always experience the safest, highest quality, best-value health care across all settings.