• Anthony G Macintyre, Joseph A Barbera, and Peter Brewster.
• The George Washington University, USA. amacintyre@mfa.gwu.edu
• Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2009 Jun 1; 3 (2 Suppl): S52-8.

AbstractParticularly since 2001, the health care industry has witnessed many independent and often competing efforts to address mitigation and preparedness for emergencies. Clinicians, health care administrators, engineers, safety and security personnel, and others have each developed relatively independent efforts to improve emergency response. A broader conceptual approach through the development of a health care emergency management profession should be considered to integrate these various critical initiatives. When based on long-standing emergency management principles and practices, health care emergency management provides standardized, widely accepted management principles, application concepts, and terminology. This approach could also promote health care integration into the larger community emergency response system. The case for a formally defined health care emergency management profession is presented with discussion points outlining the advantages of this approach.

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