The Healthcare Facilities Partnership of South Central Pennsylvania is a coalition supported through funding made possible by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations, Division of National Healthcare Preparedness Programs (Grant No. HFPEP070002-01-01).

 

The goals of the Healthcare Facilities Partnership of South Central Pennsylvania are:

To enhance situational awareness of capabilities and assets in the South Central Region of Pennsylvania

To develop and pilot test advanced planning and exercising of plans in the Region

To complete written Medical Mutual Aid Agreements between healthcare facilities in the Region, with a special emphasis on hospitals

To develop and strengthen Partnership relationships through joint planning, frequent communications, simulation, and evaluation of preparedness

To ensure National Incident Management System compliance, including the new NIMS activities, for all hospitals in the Region

To develop and test a plan for effective utilization of Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP)

For further information regarding how The Healthcare Facilities Partnership of South Central Pennsylvania has made progress toward our goals, please follow the link or you may get further information by following the RESOURCES tab at the top of the page