Critical Infrastructure Protection of Health Care Delivery Systems

Catalog description

This course will enable students to systematically evaluate the critical infrastructure and related vulnerabilities of a hospital or health care system, and then use the knowledge and skills to develop an emergency response plan to mitigate distuption to health care delivery. The course uses an all-hazard approach which would be appropriate for carious natural or terrorist events. The course docuses upon the protection of all healthcare delivery for an individual hospital and for a defined residential population. The content includes a review of critical infrastructures, assessment of vulnerabilities, application to a simulated reural/urban county with muliptle hospitals, and development of a deasible response to the incident or terrorism. The course stresses advanced preparation, communication, and frequent evaluation of plans. The course also examines the relationship between the healthcare delivery system and the local. state, and federal emergency response agencies in addition to their particular roles relative to disasters and terrorist emergencies.