With increased risks of natural and man-made disasters, many hospitals have upgraded their business continuity planning, according to an article on the Healthcare Finance News website.
Susquehanna Health, a four-hospital health system based in Williamsport, Pa., took an enterprise risk management approach to disaster planning when upgrading its emergency preparedness plans, the article said.
Susquehanna began by identifying what were considered to be the key risks to its operations, equipment, staff, patients and technology systems.
“Then we assessed and prioritized these risks for resource allocation purposes, based on an enterprise risk management formula developed by Kaiser Permanente that we altered a bit to stress the likelihood of the event occurring,” James Slotterback, Susquehanna emergency preparedness coordinator, said in the article.
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