Healthcare Contingency Planning Paper
Contingency Planning for the Health Care Provider
Mia M. Carter
American Intercontinental University
April 27, 2014
Abstract
In this paper can be found a generic contingency plan for the health care industry, this paper shows how quickly things can change for health care providers, and what steps that need to be taken in case of a down ward spiral for the provider. This paper explains the seven steps of a contingency plan in detail to achieve maximum effectiveness. In this case, the contingency plan is for a surgical center.
Contingency Planning for the Health Care Provider
Background
In this paper can be found a generic contingency plan for the health care industry, this paper shows how quickly things can …show more content…
Contingency planning are steps, procedures, and policies for management that are created to keep business operations on track running and/or to restore them as well possibly during disaster or system failure. Disaster recovery is a number of processes that only pays attention to the processes of recovery. As defined by the Department of Health and Human Services, a contingency /disaster recovery plan is a strategic measure taken if there is a malfunction in a business product or if there is disaster such as flood, or fire or if things don’t go according to plan, (DHHS, …show more content…
Conduct a business impact analysis to recognize business processes and components, and systems that are critical to contingency planning. Mention the priorities to recovery and include impact events.
3. Identify and implement preventative controls and measures to increase availability, decrease the disruption effects, and reduce the cost of contingency.
4. Develop recovery strategies that make sure if something doesn’t go according to plan or if there is disaster, infrastructure critical systems and business can recover fast.
5. Develop contingency plans that include precise procedures and guidance for recovery from disruptions.
6. Plan testing, training, and exercises to practice and test contingency plans so that if there are and unfilled gaps or holes in the plan they could be filled. Also to make sure recovery personnel is prepared just in case of disruptions.
7. Maintain contingency plans. Update and add new factors to them to show the changes in the factors that influence them.
The development of contingency planning is essential to implementing and developing an emergency preparedness program that is comprehensive. According to NIST, there are five main components of contingency
Mia M. Carter
American Intercontinental University
April 27, 2014
Abstract
In this paper can be found a generic contingency plan for the health care industry, this paper shows how quickly things can change for health care providers, and what steps that need to be taken in case of a down ward spiral for the provider. This paper explains the seven steps of a contingency plan in detail to achieve maximum effectiveness. In this case, the contingency plan is for a surgical center.
Contingency Planning for the Health Care Provider
Background
In this paper can be found a generic contingency plan for the health care industry, this paper shows how quickly things can …show more content…
Contingency planning are steps, procedures, and policies for management that are created to keep business operations on track running and/or to restore them as well possibly during disaster or system failure. Disaster recovery is a number of processes that only pays attention to the processes of recovery. As defined by the Department of Health and Human Services, a contingency /disaster recovery plan is a strategic measure taken if there is a malfunction in a business product or if there is disaster such as flood, or fire or if things don’t go according to plan, (DHHS, …show more content…
Conduct a business impact analysis to recognize business processes and components, and systems that are critical to contingency planning. Mention the priorities to recovery and include impact events.
3. Identify and implement preventative controls and measures to increase availability, decrease the disruption effects, and reduce the cost of contingency.
4. Develop recovery strategies that make sure if something doesn’t go according to plan or if there is disaster, infrastructure critical systems and business can recover fast.
5. Develop contingency plans that include precise procedures and guidance for recovery from disruptions.
6. Plan testing, training, and exercises to practice and test contingency plans so that if there are and unfilled gaps or holes in the plan they could be filled. Also to make sure recovery personnel is prepared just in case of disruptions.
7. Maintain contingency plans. Update and add new factors to them to show the changes in the factors that influence them.
The development of contingency planning is essential to implementing and developing an emergency preparedness program that is comprehensive. According to NIST, there are five main components of contingency