Introduction
No healthcare facility exists in isolation; all provide essential services to their communities, and all are, in turn, reliant upon access to staffing, services, and materials with which to provide those services. In some cases, supplies may be locally sourced, while in others, essential equipment may have to come from the other side of the country, or even halfway around the world. In such circumstances, while the Emergency Manager may never actually be responsible for the creation and the operation of a healthcare facility’s supply chains, it is essential to understand how they work, how and why they are vulnerable, and how those vulnerabilities can potentially affect the facility. It is unreasonable ...
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