Hospital Incident Command & Mass-Casualty Preparedness Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Apply an all-hazards approach to hospital planning for major incidents and disasters.
• Conduct a hospital hazard vulnerability analysis that ranks threats by likelihood, service impact and preparedness.
• Develop a hospital emergency operations plan with clear activation triggers, alert levels and emergency codes.
• Apply the hospital incident command system to assign command roles, job action sheets and incident action plans.
• Design the staffing and information flow of a hospital command center that supports timely decisions.
• Evaluate hospital surge capacity across staff, supplies, space and systems under conventional, contingency and crisis conditions.
• Plan the administrative arrangements for receiving mass casualties, including patient tracking and family information.
• Develop evacuation and shelter-in-place strategies that protect patients, staff and critical services.
• Prepare hospital support plans for mass-gathering events with ambulance services and health authorities.
• Strengthen emergency communication with staff, authorities, partner hospitals, families and the media.
• Design and evaluate hospital-specific tabletop, functional and full-scale exercises.
• Produce after-action reports and a prioritized hospital preparedness improvement plan.

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Learning Outcomes

• Explain how hospital emergency management differs from general emergency planning and daily emergency department operations.
• Conduct a hospital hazard vulnerability analysis and translate its results into priority planning scenarios.
• Structure a hospital emergency operations plan with clear codes, alert levels and activation triggers.
• Activate the hospital incident command system and assign command roles using job action sheets.
• Run a hospital command center that produces situation reports, resource requests and incident action plans.
• Assess hospital surge capacity and set realistic bed creation targets.
• Organize mass-casualty reception, patient tracking and family information arrangements as administrative processes.
• Choose between evacuation and shelter-in-place and plan patient movement to receiving facilities.
• Protect the continuity of utilities, supplies and information systems that critical hospital services depend on.
• Develop a hospital support plan for mass-gathering events coordinated with regional health and ambulance services.
• Design and evaluate progressive hospital exercises and document results in after-action reports.
• Prepare a prioritized hospital preparedness improvement plan with owners, indicators and governance arrangements.

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