Use These Tips To Plan For Disaster Recovery
Accreditation Connection, January 26, 2004
By now, the cornerstones of your emergency management plans have a familiar ring-mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery.
Of those four goals established by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), recovery-bringing hospital operations back to life after an emergency-may be the most difficult to plan.
"Ultimately, you want to recover to the level you were before the disaster," says J. Douglas Roill, CHSP, general manager of hospitality services at Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix.
His hospital uses a business continuity and disaster recovery plan, which stems from Y2K emergency planning. Department managers answer a series of questions to determine the critical needs of each area and all of these initiatives roll into the facility's overall disaster plan.
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