CONTINUITY PLANNING
‘When many hospitals are damaged and a great deal of city infrastructure, including transportation and utilities, is degraded, continuing medical activities becomes extremely difficult, so extensive advance measures and other preparations are needed.’
important source of information for promptly treating emergency patients and quickly restoring hospital functions. Moreover, comparing and drawing conclusions from verified damage at other hospitals, as conducted above, in normal times makes it possible to estimate how damage would progress over time, given the level of disaster preparedness at one’s own hospital. Doing this helps in the formulation of more realistic hospital BCP.
Shared intra-region operational practices during disasters would allow a ‘regional medical triage’ to be performed and for the excess capacity and limits of hospitals in the region to be grasped. Emergency patients could be handled strategically and regional medical functions restored through the efficient deployment of limited medical resources.
Going forward, we intend to further raise the precision of damage diagnostic tools,
including item verification and level assessments useful to the practice of hospital BCP, through the large amount of case data related to disasters that is starting to be made public and through verifying actual BCP formulated at hospitals. We hope to create a manual for reinforcing disaster preparedness at hospitals in practice and develop a database of disaster-related information for quick regional coordination during disasters.
Acknowledgements This study was led by the Hospital BCP Working Group of the Healthcare FM Study Group, one of the research committees of the Japan Facility Management Association. The author would like to express gratitude to the many hospital officials and personnel who support this research and participated in this study and to Associate Professor Junko Ikeuchi of Setsunan University for her invaluable assistance in the assessment of disaster preparedness at hospitals.
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