Overview of the Health Care Coalition Surge Test Tool

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. 08/17/2017 This 26-minute training video provides an overview of the Health Care Coalition (HCC) Surge Tool, how to access it, and how it can help health care coalitions identify gaps in their surge planning through a low- to no-notice exercise. The exercise ' s foundation comes from a real-world health care system disaster challenge: the evacuation of a hospital or other patient care facility. (Video or Multimedia)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - August 17, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news