Accounting for Local Hospitals in Emergency Preparedness
Hospital Incident Command Systems (HICS) are a component of security and emergency management that is often overlooked in many of the disaster plans in the United States.
Hospital Incident Command Systems (HICS) are a component of security and emergency management that is often overlooked in many of the disaster plans in the United States. Counterterrorist operatives perform drills on securing and neutralizing threats at major target areas. Although this is an extremely important concept to master, often ignored is one of the most important components in community disaster preparedness: the local area hospital.
A hospital provides all the necessary components for medical lifesaving in the event of a human-made or natural disaster. Security or emergency management specialists need to protect and value what the local area hospital provides in the event of a crisis. They must ensure that each hospital has established strong all hazards approaches in their HICS design.