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Healthcare Preparedness & Response: Adapting to a New Normal

Learn from key lessons and strategies in disaster response to improve healthcare preparedness and ensure rapid surge support for a whole community response. Investing in people, focusing on basics, innovative resource management, and statewide mutual aid are vital for a cooperative approach to protect lives from emergencies and disasters.

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Healthcare Preparedness & Response: Adapting to a New Normal

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  1. Disaster Response: Adapting to Normal Michael Loehr, Chief May 27, 2015

  2. Our purpose drives our work We save lives and protect all people in Washington from the health threats of emergencies and disasters.

  3. 2014

  4. Key Lessons from 2014: 1. Invest in your people

  5. Key Lessons from 2014: 2. Focus on the basics

  6. Key Lessons from 2014: • Share the load

  7. Healthcare Preparedness 2014 • Adjusted our priorities • Innovative resource management • Expanded training • Sustained planning

  8. Healthcare Preparedness and Response: 2015 • Improve response and recovery • Standardize our work; achieve core capabilities • Ensure rapid surge support whenever, wherever needed  • Partnerships = Whole Community Response

  9. Healthcare Preparedness and Response: 2015 • Statewide mutual aid • Show progress • Invest in a statewide response system

  10. Our Future Healthcare coalition boundaries = Healthcare system boundaries

  11. Summary Impact on response Question the “standard” approach Unity of effort

  12. If you want to be incrementally better, be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better,be cooperative.

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