New Guides Offer Hospitals Advice

Two new guides from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) can help hospital planners and administrators make important decisions about how to protect patients and health care workers during emergencies. The Hospital Evacuation Decision Guide http://www.ahrq.gov/prep/hospevacguide/ and the Hospital Assessment and Recovery Guide http://www.ahrq.gov/prep/hosprecovery/ help hospitals 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. These guides also look at how hospital personnel have coped under emergency situations in the past to better understand what factors should be considered when making evacuation, shelter-in-place and reoccupation decisions.


For more information visit this link: http://www.disability.gov/emergency_preparedness/emergency_management_planning/health_&_human_services_management.