Dr. Sheri Fink’s PrepTalk “Triage, Ethics, And Operations: Healthcare Emergency Preparedness and Response,” details two tragic events that demonstrate the value of situational awareness, the complexities of prioritizing limited resources, and the importance of ensuring systems can effectively support operational decisions. “How we allocate the resources that we have in disasters,” Dr. Fink said, “How we choose who gets the resources … is going to affect the outcome.”
Dr. Fink is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital” about a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina and her latest story, “Lost in the Storm”, tracks the Dailey family’s attempts to be rescued during Hurricane Harvey in Texas.
Related Resources
Sheri Fink
Healthcare
- Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Medicare and Medicaid Participating Providers and Suppliers
- Crisis Standards of Care: A Toolkit for Indicators and Triggers
- National Health Security Preparedness Index
Emergency Communications
- Report: Task Force on Optimal Public Safety Answering Point Architecture
- Next Generation 911
- FIRSTNET
- National Association for Amateur Radio
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