RESILIENCY
Building Supply Chain Resilience How an Arizona report on its healthcare system can help the entire U.S. healthcare supply chain.
In 2016, HHS released the 2017-2022 Health Care Preparedness and
In Arizona, a team of Arizona State
Response Capabilities guidance to describe what the healthcare delivery system, includ-
University (ASU) undergraduate, gradu-
ing healthcare coalitions, hospitals and emergency medical services must do to effec-
ate and doctoral students, along with
tively prepare for and respond to emergencies that impact the public’s health. There
staff from the Healthcare Transforma-
had been lessons learned from natural disasters like hurricanes in Texas and Florida, but
tion Institute, which is affiliated with
nothing foretold the coming COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
ASU, surveyed members of the Arizona
The U.S. healthcare system wasn’t alone in the lack of preparedness. Global
Coalition for Healthcare Emergency
action and leadership was needed throughout the world’s healthcare systems. For
Response (AzCHER), including hos-
example, the European Union created the European Health Emergency Prepared-
pitals, long-term care facilities, medical
ness and Response Authority in response to the pandemic, but it must continue to
clinics, dialysis centers and other medical
support countries in revamping and nurturing their own preparedness capacities.
care providers, and interviewed medical
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