Slide 6 Disaster Recovery Plan (Plan to lessen health disparities and improve access to services) Medical Care Improvement
The disaster recovery process focuses on restoring, redeveloping, and revitalizing communities impacted by a disaster. This would include increasing the hospital and clinical care standards at which they function during a disaster. Medical care must promote the use of limited resources to benefit the population as a whole. As well as training medical professionals to shift their work pattern from general daily care to a model (emergency response system) that accommodates the sudden unanticipated surge in demand for health care. This model may force them to make very difficult legal, ethical, and moral decisions; examples include triaging. Who gets care first and who does not get care at all, allocating limited numbers of ventilators and deciding who has access to lifesaving medications. (Veenema, 2016). Ideally, these will include a centralized structure for control (incident command system), a framework for the allocation of scarce resources, and an effective adaptation of standards for crisis care. Despite the ethical strain that is imposed on the medical staff, the emergency response system implies a decrease in health disparities and is supported by the Department of Homeland Security; EOC = emergency operations center; NRP = National Response Plan. Source: (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)
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Rehabilitation (implement a plan to reach healthy people 2020)
Lack of access, or limited access, to health services, greatly impacts an individual’s health status and recovery from disasters. Health-related rehabilitation potentially results in decreased morbidity due to disabling injuries sustained during a natural disaster and is, therefore, an essential component of the medical response plan within communities. Significant systematic challenges to the effective delivery of rehabilitation interventions during disasters include a lack of trained responders as well as a lack of medical recordkeeping, data collection, and established outcome measures (Reinhardt, 2011). Since a person’s functional needs require attention in the immediate living environment as well as in the greater community, a range of activities, including the provision of accessible and appropriate home care; housing; transportation; and educational, vocational, and social opportunities, is necessary. Based on the person’s unique medical needs, health-related rehabilitation is best delivered by a multi-disciplinary team. The Vila health community would benefit from officials working with federal funding agencies to identify a disaster relief plan with the aim of strengthening the rehabilitation perspective in response to natural disasters. These findings would support the employment of interdisciplinary health teams and rehabilitation services. The rehabilitation services would also support the goals addressed by Healthy People 2020, including attaining high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death; achieving health equity, eliminating disparities, and improving the health of all groups; creating social and physical environments that promote good health for all; and promote quality of life, healthy development (Healthy People, 2020).
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Health and Governmental Policy Impact Disaster Recovery Efforts
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) offers funding designed to help healthcare organizations manage operations during and after a disastrous event. All healthcare facilities must comply with all applicable federal and state emergency preparedness requirements in order to participate in CMS programs and receive CMS funding. These regulations require healthcare facilities to develop specific emergency plans, communications, policies, and training that complies with both federal and state law and also ensure coordination of patient care across the continuum (Veenema, 2016). These findings may be beneficial in addressing the lack of supplies and resources the city is suffering from.