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Assignment - Community Assets and Disaster Management Discussion
Description - One of the major challenges during the initial phase of a disaster is integrating the public health and emergency management assets. Your assignment is to assess how your community emergency medical services organizations, medical treatment facilities (i.e., hospitals, clinics, stand-alone ERs), and public health assets plan to work together to mitigate the loss of life during a disaster scenario. Have the new facilities of stand-alone ERs and urgency care centers been incorporated into your community's overall surge capacity?
Your paper should address the following:
Identify a potential disaster likely to impact your community or region.
Evaluate available trauma assets, emergency management services, hospitals, clinics, etc.
Your community's potential level of preparedness.
The hospital and other parts of the healthcare systems role in responding to a disaster.