Hospital Command Center

During a crisis, the effectiveness of the hospital’s incident management team is greatly enhanced when they have access to a prepared location to convene and coordinate planning, resources, and information. To be effective, the Hospital Command Center (HCC) must be appropriately located, equipped, and secured. In addition, those designated to work in the HCC need to fully understand how to work efficiently and effectively in an environment that operates on a different plane from normal daily activities.

 

This comprehensive Hospital Command Center Workshop combines lecture, equipment demonstration, and a tabletop exercise to prepare incident management team members to function effectively in a command center.

 

HCC training is the next step that hospital leaders should take in their ongoing preparedness effort to operationalize ICS into their emergency management program and organizational culture. Attendees of this program must be familiar with the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS-IV) and have successfully completed IS-100, IS-200, and ICS-700.a.

 

 

Since 1991, DQE has been trusted by over 500 hospitals and over 10,000 healthcare providers to provide consistent disaster preparedness for their facilities.