Two new guides are now available from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help hospital planners and administrators make important decisions about how to protect patients and health care workers and assess the physical components of a hospital when a natural or manmade disaster, terrorist attack, or other catastrophic event threatens the soundness of a facility.
The Hospital Evacuation Decision Guide was designed to provide hospital evacuation decision teams with organized and systematic guidance on how to consider the many factors that bear on the decision to order an evacuation, and assist decision teams in identifying some of the special situations, often overlooked, that may exist in their facility or geographic area that could affect the decision to evacuate.
The Hospital Assessment and Recovery Guide was designed to help organize the initial assessment of a hospital upon return after an evacuation/closure due to an emergency event.
