Purpose: The federal Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) provides funding to support and increase the level of preparedness nationwide. The primary focus of the South Dakota Hospital Preparedness Program is to provide leadership and funding to enhance the infrastructure of hospitals and collaborating entities to plan for, respond to, and recover from mass casualty events.
The program promotes medical surge capacity through a tiered response that facilitates the movement of resources, people and services and enhances overall capabilities. All emergency preparedness and response efforts are consistent with the National Response Plan and the National Incident Management 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 program is located within the ASPR Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations (OPEO) Division of National Healthcare Preparedness Programs (DNHPP).
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 the HPP funding is to improve surge capacity and enhance community and hospital preparedness for public health emergencies/events.
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.