Modeling hospitals' adaptive capacity during a loss of infrastructure services

Resilience in hospitals - their ability to withstand, adapt to, and rapidly recover from disruptive events - is vital to their role as part of national critical infrastructure. This paper presents a model to provide planning guidance to decision makers about how to make hospitals more resilient agai...

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Published in:Journal of healthcare engineering 2015, Vol.6 (1), p.85-120
Main Authors: Vugrin, Eric D, Verzi, Stephen J, Finley, Patrick D, Turnquist, Mark A, Griffin, Anne R, Ricci, Karen A, Wyte-Lake, Tamar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil Defense
Emergencies
Hospital Administration
Hospitals
Humans
Models, Organizational
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Summary:Resilience in hospitals - their ability to withstand, adapt to, and rapidly recover from disruptive events - is vital to their role as part of national critical infrastructure. This paper presents a model to provide planning guidance to decision makers about how to make hospitals more resilient against possible disruption scenarios. This model represents a hospital's adaptive capacities that are leveraged to care for patients during loss of infrastructure services (power, water, etc.). The model is an optimization that reallocates and substitutes resources to keep patients in a high care state or allocates resources to allow evacuation if necessary. An illustrative example demonstrates how the model might be used in practice.
ISSN:2040-2295
2040-2309
DOI:10.1260/2040-2295.6.1.85