Hospital preparedness program cooperative agreement - the kansas hospital preparedness program (HPP), delivered by the kansas department of health and environment (KDHE), will work with the seven…

Hospital preparedness program cooperative agreement - the kansas hospital preparedness program (HPP), delivered by the kansas department of health and environment (KDHE), will work with the seven health care coalitions across the state to provide a foundation for health care readiness. This will be accomplished by continuing to form public-private partnerships among multiple types of health care, public health, and emergency management organizations to empower health care entities across the state of kansas to save lives during disasters and emergencies that exceed the day-to-day capacity of health care and emergency response systems. KDHE has successfully delivered HPP across the state of kansas for many years and has had the opportunity to learn and grow to support the emergency health care needs of communities across the state. KDHE has had the opportunity to contract with health care coalition partners of kansas (hccp of KS), LLC over the last five years to coordinate and manage the seven hccs across the state. This relationship has been beneficial as KDHE and hccp of KS have worked together to ensure the HPP goals and objectives are met. KDHE will work with hccp of KS and the seven hccs across the state to establish and act on multi-year priorities. KDHE will work to ensure that proposed activities adequately address health care readiness challenges and opportunities, advance outcomes, and address health care readiness priorities across the state. This will include having health care delivery systems to respond to shifting threat landscapes and community needs over multiple years, continuous programmatic and administrative improvement within multi-year priorities, enhancing and sustaining the hccs, strong HCC governance/management/operations partnerships, coordinated planning/decision making among health care delivery system partners, ESF 8 integration, continuity of health care delivery, a resilient health care workforce, and sufficient space/systems/staff/resources to support patient movemen T and patient care during response and recovery.