Coordinated Interfacility Planning
Introduction
Communitywide or regional emergencies can often pose significant challenges for healthcare institutions. Hospitals and long-term care facilities which may not have significant contact on a daily basis or which, in some cases, actually view one another as competitors will all have to shoulder the burden of disaster response. They may do this in isolation from their neighbors, much as some of them do every day, but the response will be much better for all concerned if they can work together. Unfortunately, there are often significant barriers to coordinated responses. Some of these may have occurred deliberately, as with the tendency to view other hospitals as competitors.1 It can also be ...
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