Complete Self-Sufficiency Planning: Designing and Building Disaster-Ready Hospitals

• 2013

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• Chad Brands; Raquel Hernandez; Arnold Stenberg; Gary Carnes; Jonathan Ellen; Michael Epstein
PMID: 23263316DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/smj.0b013e31827cb1b2

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This article discusses the planning and construction of a freestanding children's hospital in Florida with a focus on disaster readiness. The hospital's leaders did a detailed risk check and involved everyone in planning and designing the building. They learned from past events, like Hurricane Katrina, to make sure the hospital stays open when needed most. The idea is called complete self-sufficiency planning, which means being totally prepared on your own. This approach is suggested as the best way to build new hospitals ready for any disaster.

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Focus Areas: Everyday Emergency; Natural Disasters; Severe Weather

Audience: Emergency Managers

Emergency Management Stage: Mitigation

Bundles: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Disaster Planning; Emergency Medical Services; Florida; Hospital Design and Construction; Hospitals, Pediatric; Electric Power Supplies; United States; Cyclonic Storms

Institutions: Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

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