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Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response

This issue of The Express highlights the following new and updated resources: 

• Template - Hospital Crisis Standards of Care Resource Allocation Annex
• Crisis Standards of Care: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic (Speaker Series Recording)
• Mass Distribution and Dispensing/Administration of Medical Countermeasures Topic Collection

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Template-Hospital Crisis Standards of Care Resource Allocation Annex 

The Hospital Crisis Standards of Care Resource Allocation Annex Template can help hospital emergency managers and medical directors develop an annex to their Emergency Operations Plans (EOPs) that complements existing surge capacity plans. It includes specific decision processes for allocation of resources and the triage of patients for the provision of critical care when shortages of equipment or therapeutics pose a significant risk to patient outcomes.

Crisis Standards of Care: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic (Speaker Series Recording)

In Crisis Standards of Care: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dr. John Hick (Hennepin Healthcare) describes how the crisis standards of care concept and practice have changed over the past several years. Check out the other Health Care System Preparedness Considerations recordings for related resources. 

Mass Distribution and Dispensing/Administration of Medical Countermeasures Topic Collection (Updated) 

The Mass Distribution and Dispensing/Administration of Medical Countermeasures Topic Collection provides links to federal, state, local, and tribal programs and resources, lessons learned, plans, tools and templates, courses, and guidance that can help planners address the need to effectively distribute and administer medical countermeasures to a large number of persons in a short period of time.

Project ECHO Clinical Readiness Rounds

ASPR and Project ECHO have launched HHS/ASPR Project ECHO Clinical Readiness Rounds to create peer-to-peer learning networks where clinicians who have more experience treating patients in emergency situations share their challenges and successes with clinicians across the U.S. and around the world with a wide variety of experience of these situations. Topics for sessions are based on new and emergent information around emergency preparedness and topics requested by participants. Please contact C19ECHO@salud.unm.edu for more information.

Updates from the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection

ASPR’s Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) offers a variety of newsletters to keep stakeholders informed during emergency response and steady state. The newsletters inform stakeholders of the most significant issues facing the health care and public health sector, including cybersecurity, health care supply chains, and more. If you are interested in receiving CIP newsletters, visit the CIP newsletter subscription webpage.