Anticipate, respond, recover
Subtitle: healthcare leadership and catastrophic events
By: K. Joanne McGlown, Phillip D. Robinson, editors
Series: American College of Healthcare Executives Management Series
Publisher: Health Administration Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781567933666
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Methods; Administration; Disaster Planning; Organization & administration; Hospital Administration; Emergency medical services; Hospitals; Organizational Policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: Disasters and catastrophes defined; title: Organizing for disasters; title: Preparedness planning for catastrophe (pre-incident); title: Responding : you're in this alone; title: Leadership in action; title: Recovery : the good, the bad and the ugly; title: Financial planning for catastrophic events; title: Financial actions during and after the catastrophe; title: What's in our future?; title: Devastation on Galveston Island : the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Hurricane Ike / an interview with David L. Callender and Michael J. Megna; title: A new era of terrorism : JFK Medical Center and the first anthrax exposure / an interview with Phillip D. Robinson; title: Flooding in the lone star state : Texas Children's Hospital and Tropical Storm Allison / an interview with Randall Wright; title: Disasters in Arkansas / an interview with Angela l. Richmond, Kirk Reamey, and Beth Ingram; title: An early careerist's perspective of disaster preparedness / an interview with Windsor Westbrook Sherrill.