HSMG 615 - Crisis Mgmnt in Health Care

Credit(s): 3
3 hours lecture, 3 hours contact
The purpose of this course is to improve emergency preparedness by employing a managerial perspective on crisis management. Health care managers are often judged by their leadership during times of crises and severe emergencies. Events that require health care managers to have the knowledge and competencies to lead during crises include: Natural disasters (hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, forest fires), Technology, infrastructure, and systems failures (major industrial accidents, bridge collapses, power or cyber system blackouts, airline and train crashes), Infectious Disease (Ebola, MERS, H1N1, SARS, West Nile virus, avian flu), and Purposeful, human-initiated disasters (terrorism, bio-terrorism, riots).