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Emergency Management for the Outpatient Health Care Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2019

Emma Paras  and
Matthew Butler
Emma Paras*
Affiliation:
Division of Emergency Preparedness, Department of Clinical Operations Support and Services, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
Matthew Butler
Affiliation:
Division of Emergency Preparedness, Department of Clinical Operations Support and Services, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Emma Paras, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Buerger Building, P1 Suite 1005, 3500 Civic Center Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19104 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Abstract

Utilization of ambulatory and outpatient services for primary, specialty, and surgical care has risen in the United States over the last decade, in parallel with the evolution of health care emergency management. Regulatory and accreditation authorities; legislature and policies; and real-life events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires throughout the country have caused health care systems to take a more all-hazards approach for emergency management. While health care emergency management has grown tremendously in significance, outpatient settings have yet to see the same growth. However, concepts of comprehensive emergency management and the incident command system are important and valuable across all health care system settings, including outpatient facilities. The purpose of this article is to summarize regulatory requirements for outpatient health care emergency management, describe nuances of outpatient settings, and provide recommendations for how to successfully incorporate outpatient and ambulatory locations into the “Enterprise” model for comprehensive health care emergency management.

Keywords

ambulatory carecomprehensive emergency managementemergency managementhealth careoutpatient
Type
Concepts in Disaster Medicine
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 14 , Issue 5 , October 2020 , pp. 596 - 600
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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