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Improving Disaster Response Efforts Through the Development of a Disaster Health Care Response System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2017

Jonathan A. Wilson Open the ORCID record for Jonathan A. Wilson [Opens in a new window] ,
L. Kendall McKenzie ,
W. Terry McLeod ,
Damon A. Darsey  and
Jim Craig
Jonathan A. Wilson*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Services, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
L. Kendall McKenzie
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
W. Terry McLeod
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Services, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
Damon A. Darsey
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
Jim Craig
Affiliation:
Department of Health Protection, Mississippi State Department of Health, Jackson, Mississippi
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Mr Jonathan Wilson, Department of Emergency Services, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216-4505 (e-mail: jwilson5@umc.edu).
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Abstract

We review the development of a disaster health care response system in Mississippi aimed at improving disaster response efforts. Large-scale disasters generate many injured and ill patients, which causes a significant utilization of emergency health care services and often requires external support to meet clinical needs. Disaster health care services require a solid infrastructure of coordination and collaboration to be effective. Following Hurricane Katrina, the state of Mississippi implemented best practices from around the nation to establish a disaster health care response system. The State Medical Response System of Mississippi provides an all-hazards system designed to support local response efforts at the time, scope, and scale required to successfully manage the incident. Components of this disaster health care response system can be replicated or adapted to meet the dynamic landscape of health care delivery following disasters. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2017;11:600–604)

Keywords

disaster planningemergency preparednessemergency servicehospitalpublic health
Type
Concepts in Disaster Medicine
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 11 , Issue 5 , October 2017 , pp. 600 - 604
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2017 

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