Healthcare Emergency Management
As part of Pennsylvania’s Healthcare Preparedness Program, a partnership between Public Health Management Corporation and the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADOH), the Healthcare Emergency Management program supports the network of health care coalitions (HCCs) across the Commonwealth. This partnership exists to refine, enhance and facilitate the HCCs.
Per the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR, HHS), an HCC is a network of individual public and private organizations in a defined state or sub-state geographic area that partner to prepare health care systems to respond to emergencies and disasters, ultimately increasing local and regional resilience. HCCs are composed of diverse, and sometimes competitive organizations who, during a disaster, become interdependent on one another for supplies, transportation, personnel and more.
- Healthcare Coalition facilitation, growth, maintenance, and fiduciary responsibility
- Serve as subject matter experts and provide technical assistance in areas of health care emergency preparedness and response
- Assist in communication and coordination within health care facility incident response
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Eligibility Criteria
HCCs should include the core members of acute care hospitals, public health agencies, emergency medical services and emergency management agencies. HCCs highly encourage participation from all health care organizations and partners such as, but not limited to:
- Long term care
- Rehabilitation
- Home care
- Hospice
- Behavioral health agencies
- Federally Qualified Health Centers
- Non-governmental organizations
- and many more
Central Region Healthcare Coalition
- Counties: Berks, Bradford, Clinton, Columbia, Lycoming, Luzerne, Montour, Northumberland, Potter, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Tioga, Union, Wyoming
Healthcare Coalition of Southwestern Pennsylvania
- Counties: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Mercer, Somerset, Washington, Westmoreland
Keystone Healthcare Coalition
- Counties: Adams, Bedford, Blair, Centre, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder, York
Northeast Healthcare Coalition
- Counties: Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne
Northern Tier Healthcare Coalition
- Counties: Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest, Jefferson, McKean, Venango, Warren
Southeastern Pennsylvania Healthcare Coalition
- Counties: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia
Referral Process
- Existing member and partner organizations may access your health care coalition by reaching out to the regional readiness coordinator for your county/health care coalition.
- Organizations looking to join your HCC may reach out to your Regional Readiness Coordinator and fill out an online request to join.
Email:
- Central Region: Adam Frymoyer, afrymoyer@phmc.org
- Northeast Region: David Stofanak, dstofanak@phmc.org
- Northern Tier: Melinda Carbaugh, mcarbaugh@phmc.org
- Keystone: Pamela Drake, pdrake@phmc.org
- Southeast: Douglas Wo, dwo@phmc.org
- Southwest: Rick Lippert, rlippert@phmc.org
