Purpose: The federal Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) provides funding to support and increase the level of preparedness nationwide. The South Dakota Hospital Preparedness Program strengthens the state’s healthcare system by improving preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience during emergencies and disasters. Through the South Dakota Healthcare Preparedness Coalition (SD HPC), HPP brings together hospitals, EMS, long-term care, public health, emergency management, tribal partners, and other healthcare partners to build strong relationships, enhance coordination, and ensure healthcare services remain available when South Dakotans need them most.
Through planning, training, exercises, resource coordination, and information sharing, the program helps healthcare organizations prepare for and respond to emergencies while promoting collaboration and continuous improvement across South Dakota’s healthcare system
Emergency Operations Coordination
Health care organizations coordinate operations with EOC/on-scene to manage incidents, allocating info, and resources for affected organizations.
Fatality Management
Fatality management is the coordination of organizations to ensure proper recovery, handling, identification, transport, storage, and disposal of human remains.
Medical Surge
Medical surge capability provides adequate evaluation and care during incidents that exceed the limits of the normal medical infrastructure in the community.
Responder Safety & Health
Find processes to equip, train and provide other resources needed to ensure healthcare workers at the highest risk are adequately protected from all hazards.
Information Sharing
Information sharing is the exchange of public health and medical-related information and situational awareness between the health care system and government.
Preparedness Resources
Find hospital preparedness tools and links to outside resources like the Center for Disease Control & Prevention, documents, and more.
Health Care System Preparedness
Health care system preparedness is the ability of a community’s healthcare system to prepare, respond, and recover from public health incidents.
The HPP is a federal program under the HHS Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Office of Health Care Readiness.
The mission of the ASPR HPP is to enhance the resiliency of healthcare systems to deliver coordinated and effective care during public health emergencies and mass casualty events. The main purpose of HPP funding is to strengthen regional and statewide collaboration among healthcare organizations while supporting training, exercises, and planning activities that improve preparedness for emergencies and disasters.
The South Dakota Hospital Preparedness Program works with hospitals and other medical facilities to ensure that South Dakota's medical community is as prepared as we can be! For additional information, please contact Lesley-Ann Pont, HPP Coordinator, 605-280-5238.
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