CHAPTER 1

Emergency Response Planning

Introduction

The successful Emergency Manager attempts to leave as little as possible to chance. Creating an Emergency Response Plan for a healthcare setting is, in many respects, simply another project. As such, it is very much amenable to the processes described in detail elsewhere in this series, including applied research methodology, Root-Cause Analysis, Project Management, Lean, and Six Sigma. Each of these can have a significant impact on both the project and the quality of the result.

That being said, the practice of emergency management has its own major components, and these can provide the Emergency Manager with further assistance, by identifying those issues which must be addressed in order to ...

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