IHA Emergency Preparedness Exercise

In healthcare, preparedness isn’t an optional skill, it’s a responsibility. To aid hospitals and health systems in strengthening their emergency response, IHA’s annual Emergency Preparedness Exercise simulates a realistic emergency scenario involving leaders and staff organization-wide. The expert-led interactive webinar helps IHA members fortify their preparedness plans and procedures—before a real crisis occurs.

Emergency preparednessThe annual Emergency Preparedness Exercise is designed to:
  • Build capacity and capability to prepare for and respond to incidents that stress normal hospital daily operations;
  • Discuss healthcare safety challenges with peers around the state; and
  • Achieve compliance with various regulatory and accreditation bodies.

We survey our members each year to ensure the exercise topic is timely and aligned with advocacy, quality, and safety initiatives. IHA members have specific preparedness needs. That's why we customize objectives and tasks to meet individual facility, system or regional needs. Past exercises have focused on an array of timely topics including mass casualty incidents, active shooter and cyberattacks.  

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