Designing an Escape Fire: Initial Response to a Health Care Crisis

This presentation will describe the importance of maintaining resilience while building on existing capacity and organizational infrastructure during a pandemic or health care crisis. An important aspect of organizational response is the ability to pivot from a reactive model to a predictive model. These models enable organizations to obtain and analyze data, improve supply chain, secure and distribute PPE and build robust surveillance and reporting systems. Lessons learned will be shared along with how to apply these lessons to assist healthcare organizations to become better prepared for future public health threats.