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About the Northwest Healthcare Response Network
501C3 Non-Profit Healthcare Coalition
Funded by the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), DOH and donations from healthcare partners.
Participation in healthcare coalitions are requirements of both the Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) and the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program (PHEP), and now they also help fulfill the requirements of the CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule.
The Northwest Healthcare Response Network serves the role of the healthcare coalition for Western Washington.
About the Northwest Healthcare Response Network
The Northwest Healthcare Response Network (NWHRN) has a unique and vital role in disaster planning, response and recovery: We are a backbone organization that leads a coalition of health care organizations, public health leaders and emergency response partners to ensure communities across our state can get needed healthcare services during emergencies and disasters. This is the heart of our mission during any kind of crisis.
What we do – High Level Overview
Develop innovative solutions to sustain patient care during crises.
Ensure a shared awareness of the status of healthcare in Washington state to inform decision making.
Provide real time support to healthcare to effectively manage crises.
Build healthcare resiliency strategy through policy and advocacy.
What we do – Examples
Our Regional Response Work Over The Years
Engagement at all levels
We plan, engage, train, exercise, coordinate, and advocate at all levels:
Response Operations
The Network takes an all-hazards approach to response, we respond to large scale MCI’s usually at the request of the DMCC and to events at the request of healthcare partners that aren’t necessarily MCI’s such as large-scale evacuations, healthcare surges, disease outbreaks, etc. Our response operations operate in a virtual space we refer to as the HECC or Healthcare Emergency Coordination Center.
Response Operations
We activate our Healthcare Emergency Coordination Center or (HECC) for a variety of different reasons. If support is needed for an incident, we activate the HECC to provide healthcare coordination and support. That support is sometimes in the form of information gathering and dissemination providing situational awareness for our partners, agency coordination for the purpose of solving an emergent situation, healthcare notification for MCI’s, resource coordination, patient tracking or resource requesting.
Communications Capabilities
Communications Capabilities
Healthcare is bigger than just a single county. Our role is regional messaging and coordination of healthcare interdependencies and strategies for patient care, staffing, patient tracking and patient transfers. Individual counties often lack awareness of what’s going on in other counties during widespread events such as healthcare surges, disease outbreaks, etc. We help create a common operating picture and bring these agencies together during a crisis.