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Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response

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

• New Chapters in Hospital Readiness and Response: An Online Guidebook
• Community Integration
• Hospital Emergency Management Leadership
• Practical ICS for Hospitals
• Emergency Management Basics and the Emergency Management Cycle
• ASPR TRACIE-Medical Reserve Corps Partnership Updates
• Spotlighting Children's Health After a Disaster (Speaker Series Recording)
• Register Today! National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference

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New Chapters in Hospital Readiness and Response: An Online Guidebook

We are pleased to announce the release of four new chapters in our online guidebook:

• Community Integration focuses on how hospitals work with partners to boost integrated community planning that improves both hospital readiness and community resilience.
• Hospital Emergency Management Leadership outlines key elements of hospital emergency management leadership.
• Practical ICS for Hospitals focuses on how the incident command system structure can be effectively applied to the hospital environment.
• Emergency Management Basics and the Emergency Management Cycle provides an overview of the field, describes the emergency management cycle, and highlights how hospitals can use risk analyses to identify what emergencies are most likely to affect the hospital and their potential impact.



Hospital Readiness and Response: An Online Guidebook currently contains 17 chapters designed to help those who are new to their positions (e.g., emergency managers, medical directors, and others in leadership positions) or have been recruited to serve on a multidisciplinary team charged with developing and maintaining an emergency management program. 

ASPR TRACIE-Office of Medical Reserve Corps Partnership Updates

We have been busy working together to share promising practices and other helpful Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) resources with our stakeholders, and now they can all be found on the new ASPR TRACIE-Medical Reserve Corps Resource Page! New resources include:



• Two new MRC Voices from the Field Speaker Series recordings:
• Disaster MRC Telehealth Strike Team features Stephanie Payne, MBA, LSSGB (Disaster Telemedicine Project Manager) and Suleima Salgado, MBA (Principal Investigator and Puerto Rico/US Virgin Islands Liaison) discussing the background and recent experiences of the Southern Regional Disaster Response System's Medical Reserve Corps telehealth strike team model.
• REVIVE! MRC Voices from the Field, where Larry Turner (Substance Use Education Specialist, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health Developmental Services), Adreania Tolliver (State MRC Coordinator for the Virginia Department of Health), Alyssa Lewis (Richmond and Henrico Local Health Emergency Coordinator) and Kate Bausman, CVA (the Eastern Region MRC Coordinator for Virginia) describe the REVIVE! Virginia’s Opioid Overdose and Naloxone Education Program, whose goal is to empower communities across the Commonwealth to take proactive steps in combating the opioid crisis and saving lives.
• Training Resources for MRC and Other Volunteer Organizations, a new document that can help stakeholders and individual volunteers learn more about areas in which there is often a need for voluntary assistance. The resources were primarily curated through a review of MRC training courses, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention courses, and those included in related ASPR TRACIE Collections.

Spotlighting Children's Health After a Disaster

LCDR Christine M. Nappa (LCSW, Community Resilience Coordinator, ASPR Office of Community Mitigation and Recovery) and Nathan Timm (MD, FAAP, Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Pediatric Disaster Center of Excellence - Region V for Kids) highlight two tools in Spotlighting Children’s Health After a Disaster--the Children’s Environmental Health Post-Disaster Assessment Toolkit and the Pediatric After Action Report--and how they can assist planners with hazard vulnerability assessment and incorporating children into recovery efforts.

National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference  

The theme of this year’s conference (taking place December 1-3 in National Harbor, Maryland) is “Harboring Strength: Uniting Coalitions for a Safer Tomorrow.” In addition to learning from and networking with healthcare coalition colleagues, we invite you to join the ASPR TRACIE Team (on December 2, at 9:00 AM) at our session “Strength in Partnership: HCCs, MRCs, and Healthcare in Action.”  Space is limited; register for the 2026 conference today!