Texas NFP Hospitals Will Face Pain from Harvey in Years to Come
Keeping in line with my previous blog post I found an article from the Health Financial Management Associations titled, “Texas NFP Hospitals Will Feel Harvey Pain for Year: Moody’s.” In the article, it evaluates the different steps hospitals in Texas took to be prepared for the natural disaster, Hurricane Harvey. With Harvey hitting towards the end of the fiscal year it puts a lot of executives in a tough position if their hospital had to close or evacuate patients. A lot of hospitals are requesting property loss due to flooding and other structural damaging but those assessments will not be made till a later point in time. While Harvey did do mass destruction to the state of Texas, 95 percent of the Houston hospitals are operational as of last week and all but one of them that closed are back up and running. Those that stayed up and running had to be prepared long before we even knew of Harvey’s power. Employees had to make sure they had a plethora of supplies and resources alo...
We certainly are getting to look at a lot of disaster planning this semester!
ReplyDeleteI have received FEMA training and this is just the type of events we plan for, what do we do when we need to evacuate, what do we do to help our community, how many patients can we treat/transfer, etc. How many days of water supply do we have, how long can our generators run before we need to refuel? These are all things we have in our contingency plan as Medical Emergency Planners, additionally, we become part of the community Operations Centers and we plan with our local partners taking care of each other and our communities. I have seen this in Las Vegas, Californians came here to help us and now we are sending people there to help them. If only the rest of our world could work together like this.
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