Disaster Response & Emergency Management–  

OSCDP: Together Prepared, Together Ready

Our mission is to maintain business continuity and the highest level of quality care and service during and after disasters. We identify, create, establish and test emergency management systems that provide for mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery for SHC and LPCH hospitals.

Dr. Weiss, Medical Director, Disaster Planning for Stanford University Medical Center, discusses symptoms of the flu.

We seek to establish best practices and new standards for Emergency Management and to be recognized as an Industry Leader by creating a Center of Excellence in Emergency Management and advancing the field of Disaster Medicine.
CURRENT STATUS     Phase 6

Why your Department Disaster Plans are Critically Important

When a real disaster happens - and it will - you will respond. Even if you freeze and do nothing - that is a response. Immediately knowing exactly what to do is the ideal response. It starts with a good department plan describing roles and is supplemented by training.

Planning & Preparation Can Start Today

It's time. And we'll help you develop basic disaster preparedness plans for you and your loved ones. You'll find checklinsts plus helpful and sobering information on PandemicFlu.gov -- just click on the "Individuals & Families." This site can help communities, schools, etc. get pointed in the right direction as well.

Joint Commission is coming in June 2009! Know your role in a disaster.

Joint Commission has added 6 new critical elements of emergency management to the standards. Managers must train their staff on their roles during a disaster. Joint Commission inspectors will ask staff at random what.

Drive-Through Pandemic Exercise Was First in Nation

Stanford Hospital tested something that might one day be the standard for how all hospitals respond when thousands might need care at the height of pandemic, a car drive-through triage and care system to keep people from infecting each other and to care for them as quickly and efficiently as possible. Read More »

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